Norman Mailer Quotes

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet.

I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. As far as possible I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that he has spared me the indignity of being your representative.

Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.

One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love.

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.

O believers, take not Jews and Christians as friends; they are friends of each other. Whoso of you makes them his friends is one of them.

We are all Jews now.

We consider anti-Semitism as a crime against humanity. At the same time we must consider Islamaphobia as a crime against humanity.

Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, "His color is not mine," or "His beliefs are strange and different," in that moment he betrays America

Yesterday’s Jews are evil predecessors and today’s Jews are worse successors. They an ingrate people, they altered God’s words, worshipped a calf, killed Messengers and denied their Messages. They are exiled people and the worst of mankind. Allah cursed them and cast His wrath upon them. He turned some of them to monkeys and pigs and worshippers of creatures. …

I wear a muzzuza [Jewish religious ornament] just to remind me that there must never be another holocaust.

The Moors tolerated Christendom when they were ascendant, but the Christian Inquisition harbored no reciprocal emotion.

Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany.

I'm a walking contradiction on so many levels. I'm gay, black, and a Christian.

We must stand together united in solidarity against the targeting, demonization, and vilification of any group of people.

Where you are born, your parent's beliefs, or your ethnic background should not make you a target.

I don't want you to look at my skin and think "white" or look at my heritage and think "Mexican." I want you to look at me and see me as a human being, and hopefully, we can get past all of this other stuff. It's asking a lot, of course, but there's only one way you fight extremists on both sides, whether it be racist or not, and that's by looking past me, getting bigger than that, letting them not affect you, drawing from it and sticking together with the like-minded people you have around you.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even - I spoke French and Yiddish mostly. I was picked on.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.