Jim Rogers Quotes

We take one group of people and we demonize them. Trying to turn people against our Muslim friend and neighbors.

I think, we all learned that when we are afraid it's easy to want to blame, and the people we want to blame are the people who don't look like us.

There was tremendous animus to President [Barack] Obama. Many of people said he was un-American, not a Christian and worse.

Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. "The Serbs have massacred…", "The English have devastated…", "The Jews have confiscated…", "The Blacks have torched", "The Arabs refuse…". We blithely express sweeping judgments on whole peoples, calling them "hardworking" and "ingenious", or "lazy", "touchy", "sly", "proud", or "obstinate". And sometimes this ends in bloodshed." – Amin Maalouf "On Identity

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

Maybe that's one of the virtues of the 2016 election that we're going through is all of this racism and xenophobia and sexism and whatever else you want to say is being exposed, maybe that's a blessing. I'm trying to look at the positive side of what's been happening in our country, which is frightening.

In times of economic distress, it's only natural for people - and Americans have done this for many years - to look for a scapegoat. Depending on where you live in this country, the scapegoats are either, frankly, Mexicans or Muslims. So, you know, God save you if you happened to be a Mexican Muslim in America right now.

What Donald Trump has done is to make it possible for people who had racist, sexist, and all kinds of prejudices and bigotry to put them right out there.

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.

Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

In America, I've been told so many times that I look 'too Jewish' that I stopped counting.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.

In time of political difficulty or economic difficulty the tendency is to lash our at some group.

The Irish hate our order, our civilization, our enterprising industry, our pure religion. This wild, reckless, indolent, uncertain, and superstitious race have no sympathy with the English character …. Their history describes an unbroken circle of bigotry and blood.

… an influential gang of Jews

It is tragic that all Arabs—all Moslems—are stereotyped because of the actions of a few.

The bitter and agonizing fruit from the tree of nationality…

Muslims are backward and evil and if it is racist to say so... then racist I must be.

Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.