(25 quotes found)
“Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
William Howard Taft
“Wagner was a monster. He was anti-Semitic on Mondays and vegetarian on Tuesdays. On Wednesday he was in favor of annexing Newfoundland, Thursday he wanted to sink Venice and Friday he wanted to blow up the pope.”
Tony Palmer
“[Irving, who once called the Auschwitz death camp a] Disneyland for tourists, ... an active Holocaust denier ... anti-Semitic and racist.”
Charles Gray
“Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.”
Coretta Scott King
“Anti-Semitic? What is anti-Semitic about it? When I say that a uniform should be worn to the right places and not to the wrong ones, there is nothing anti-Semitic about it, there is no logic to this claim. I just thought that in this place, discussing a book written together with a Palestinian, it shows lack of sensitivity.”
Daniel Barenboim
“Anti-Semitic? What is anti-Semitic about it? ...There is no logic to this claim.”
“We didn't want to leave our home. I never felt anti-Semitism there or anything like that, but we were living in fear: You would go out and didn't know if you would come home again. So we decided it was worthwhile living a safer life, a quieter life, even though we would have to sacrifice a lot to be here. We came with only our bags, nothing else.”
Damian Nisenson
“We refuse to allow this white supremacist a platform to spew his racist and anti-Semitic views.”
Jack Cardetti
“There is no more anti-Semitism on the state level, as we saw in Soviet times, but instead we have a lot of freedom for anti-Semitic groups in Russia, and the incident yesterday was one of its manifestations.”
Yitzhak Kogan
“It's the genteel anti-Semitism of the time. Jews were politely shut out of the country clubs and the higher echelons of WASP culture.”
Dan Wackerman
