“My worst mistake was the stupid suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism, all along.”
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
A dinner table conversation quoted in Composed on the tongue, "Encounters will Ezra Pound" by Allen Ginsberg
“Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.”
Is it Peace (1923)
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Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) American author, activist, and civil rights leader. Wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chicago Defender (1 April 1998)
Frances Bean Cobain (1992) American artist
17 June 2014 https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666/status/479082538904723457 <br class="br"> Twitter https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666 posts
Götz Aly (1947) German journalist, historian and social scientist
Source: Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust (2011), p. 31
“Lean, hungry, savage anti-everythings.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
A modest Request; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) American journalist
Interview with Der Spiegel http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-656501.html published on October 26, 2009. <br class="br">2000s, 2009
Donovan (1946) Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist
Grip interview (1997)
Context: The most important of my achievements, if you want to call them that, was that I successfully introduced mystical ideas into pop culture, which was my obsession and my compulsion when I was 16 years old. So, behind all of this fame and fortune, there was a seeker, on a spiritual path — a young man who wanted to discover and share with others an alternative way of looking at the world. I wanted to save our culture from the stupidity and the bigotry and the ignorance that threatened it. And there was the Buddhist way, and the Celtic way.
