Martin E. Marty Quotes

You see, that's the problem I have with 'you people.'

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

Anti-Semitism

We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. At times, it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. Argument turns too easily into animosity. Disagreement escalates into dehumanization. Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.

I do not want to have anything to do with anybody who is racist or bigoted or anti-Semitic.

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

No nation is immune to anti-Semitism and xenophobia.

Demonization of people on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, or other criteria leads to dehumanization. The notion that some are 'other' is a dangerous and slippery slope.

Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

Well, I try to not view things through a prism of anti-Semitism, because often, people will use that as a sort of knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Jews.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

It is hate that binds people together. Love is personal.

The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail…unlike is normally situated at a safe distance.

No British soldier is to have any social intercourse with any Jew … Regard the Jews with hatred and contempt.

These Jews seem to think of nothing but making money and sexual indulgence …. Ninety-Five percent of these folks are Jews of Eastern European lineage. They are probably the scum of the earth.

I wanted to do away with these divisions—here German, there Jews.

Muslims have been hating us for centuries ….

… whose hatred of the Jews in unbridgeable.

This picture will try to show the Nazism is a matter of mind, not geography, and that there are Nazis— and people of good will— in every country. The world can't spend its life looking over its shoulder and nursing hatreds. There would be no progress that way.

There is again a rising fever and anger towards those seen as different.

The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.