Neil Shea Quotes

It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

Sectarianism, bigotry, and it's horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful Earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now.

An evil remains an evil whether practiced by white against black or black against white.

… a disgrace to the human race.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

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.

Hate them and strike them.

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

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

It is a sin peculiar to man to hate his victim.

What I would like to emanate from the darkness of this tragedy is one spark of life. I mean, the realization that crime does not begin when you murder people. Crime begins with propaganda, even if such propaganda is for a good cause. The moment propaganda turns against another nation or against any human being, evil starts.

Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?

I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.

Anti-Semitism is a form of racism, and all forms of racism are horrible.

There is too much hate in the world; too much hurt.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.