Famous Quotes & Sayings

Umberto Eco

We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

Warren E. Burger

There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Sarah Churchwell

Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

Sandra Bullock

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

Walter Lang

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

William Julius Wilson

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.

Zoe Saldana

I've witnessed racism all my life. And of course there's racism and discrimination in Hollywood. You go for a part and they say, 'Oh, we really liked her, she's amazing, but we wanted to go with something more traditional'. As if I'm not a traditional American!

Neal Boortz

Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.

Margaret Walker

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

Winston Churchill

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

Jonah Goldberg

Liberals are Nazis, and Nazis are liberals. And if you don't agree with me, you're a Nazi too.

David Irving

The Nazis quite clearly killed millions of Jews

Marina Tsvetaeva

I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl ...

Christopher Isherwood

I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they really disliked them but because it was the thing.

Ludwig von Mises

There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were.

Kurt Vonnegut

That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away.