Richard von Weizsaecker Quotes

Terrorism is not new to black people.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

White Americans have a short memory.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Every evil and hardship that exists and has existed on the land of Palestine was caused by the Jews, they initiate evil because they have sick-hearts and evil intentions and souls…. The arrogance of the Jews has transgressed all limits; they have become obsessed with murdering and shedding the pure blood of innocent people; they have no conscience, no values and no sense of humanity in them. They are committing massacres in cities and refugee camps very frequently; they are deliberately mutilating bodies thinking that this will end the determination and will of the Muslim nation and to struggle on.

All Turkish children also should be killed as they form a danger to the Armenian nation.

The one who throws the stone forgets; the one who is hit remembers forever.

Slavery was once a tradition. Killing Indians like animals was once a tradition.

Bullets, beatings and bombings—not bullshit!

The history of most countries has been that of majorities—mounted majorities, clad in iron, armed with death, treading down the tenfold more numerous minorities.

The march of history is accompanied by a steady flow of bodies into the abattoir of hate.

America has must made a major turn from the grip of a savage past.