Memorable Quotes About Anti-Semitism

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"The characteristic mark of the Nazi is his boundless arrogance and immoderate self-esteem; the German race has been chosen by God to rule the world."
Heinrich Himmler
"I am a Jew, and therefore, I am a Zionist."
Theodor Herzl
"When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean a period of time in everybody’s history. I don’t just mean Jewish history. Everybody lived in this century. But I didn’t live it. I wasn’t living during that time."
Jimmy Carter
"The virus of anti-Semitism persists, and we must remain vigilant."
David Remnick
"We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already. He is the boss already...We are not anti-white. But we must quit trying to be white."
Malcolm X
"The idea of race is so arbitrary. Why is skin color the definitive measure of who you are?"
Whoopi Goldberg
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"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war."
John F. Kennedy
"There is not, in the wide world, a single completely unimportant man."
Brendan Behan
"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless people themselves refuse to go to war."
Albert Einstein
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
Noam Chomsky
"As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding."
Adlai Stevenson II
"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their whole argument is absurd, but they persist in it for exactly that reason. For they upset not only the laws but all the elements of fair play; they delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and to disconcert. "
Jean-Paul Sartre
"The anti-Semite is in perpetual motion. He is obsessed by the idea that the Jew is secretly plotting, that he is engaged in underground machinations."
George Simmel
"The Jew is neither Jew nor man, but a disease of mankind, a demonic germ that decomposes the mind of man."
Alfred Rosenberg
"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives."
Jane Austen
"There is no anti-Semitism in Russia because there are no Jews in Russia."
Nikolai Bukharin
"There is an antisemitism that comes from ignorance, an antisemitism that is part of the culture, and an antisemitism that is deliberate."
Yehuda Bauer
"In Nazi Germany, first they came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Martin Niemöller
"Antisemitism is a disease, a virus that spreads through societies. Throughout history, it has been a precursor to some of the worst atrocities."
Irwin Cotler
"We must fight antisemitism as irrational hatred. It is totally alien to everything that we stand for."
Angela Merkel
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"The belief that one’s own race is superior to others is racism. The practice of discrimination, persecution, and violence against a group of people based on their race is racism. The Holocaust was racism."
USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
"Anti-Semitism is among the most sinister and tragic forms of evil that have blighted the long, tormented history of mankind."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities."
IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance)
"It is not only persecution that matters, but also the insidious, day-to-day discrimination."
Simon Wiesenthal

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