Ethnic Intolerance Quotes

If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.

Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.

There is racism behind many of the [American] comments about immigration.

Immigrants are not the real problem. The real problem is much more serious: intolerance and hatred of indigenous ethnic groups. You can prohibit immigration, but what can you do about non-Russian ethnic groups living in their native territories in Russia?

Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.

Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

If, to the end of its existence, America harbors white supremacy, I don't know how remarkable that would be. France has dealt with anti-Semitism since its inception.

I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.

And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq.

We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century

The racism in Europe takes the form of anti-immigrant extremism - which is bad enough here - I think it's hard to measure, but my guess is that it's probably worse there.

I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler.

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them.

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]

The Jews' fear of assimilation and intermarriage should not replace fear of anti-Semitism.

Even one Serb in our parliament is too much

There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.

Racism is a blight on the human conscience

Let's face it: there's still a certain amount of racism in human beings, so that shows up in Hollywood.

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.