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Quotes About Extremism

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.
~ Gijs de Vries
Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.
~ Janet Napolitano
We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.
~ Bennie Thompson
Since 9/11, some of the most violent terrorists we've encountered were radicalized or recruited at universities.
~ Raymond Kelly
The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.
~ Denis McDonough
We want to go further than preventing people from becoming terrorists and focus on a broader approach to counter-extremism - both violent and non-violent.
~ Theresa May
The threat here focuses primarily on troubled souls in America who are being inspired or enabled online to do something violent for ISIL.
~ James Comey
I think the effective thing is, I passed this bill to combat violent extremism in the United States as effective outreach to the Muslim community, so you can pull the religious leaders really on to our team, if you will, to protect us from radicalization from within those communities.
~ Michael McCaul
We have a toxic ideology, hopefully very small, within Islam; certainly most people, most Muslims, don't agree with this violent, jihadist approach.
~ Jeff Sessions
I have watched the spread of violent extremism and jihadism across Europe and the U.K. with dismay, particularly given my history of experiencing threats, abuse, and harassment by Muslim fanatics.
~ Deeyah Khan
Antifa are the left-wing version of Nazis. They are very violent; they are terrible people. They cause a ruckus and property damage.
~ Mike Cernovich
I see no difference between a violent Islamist and a far-Right terrorist.
~ Amber Rudd
Our 21st-century world is an incredibly dangerous one. Between brutal civil wars, violent extremism, spreading autocracy, rising inequality, territorial expansionism, election interference, and nuclear proliferation, our policymakers have their hands full.
~ Joe Sestak
Radicalisation or the risk of children being drawn into non violent extremism is a very real threat in this country.
~ Nicky Morgan
The thing I worry about with religion isn't to do much with forgetting Christmas. It's to do with religion being angry and violent.
~ Richard Coles
The police have spent years pursuing Islamic extremism while too often overlooking the growing violent threat posed by the far-right.
~ Dawn Foster
Violent extremism is going viral, but our response to it is moving at bureaucratic, sluggish speed.
~ Michael McCaul
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
~ Barry Goldwater
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
~ Jean Racine
We should recognise the mirrors of exclusion and mirrors of extremism in our society. The inequalities and disadvantages among visible minorities are also prevalent in the white working class. Political extremism and disengagement is mirrored between white and ethnic minority communities.
~ Sadiq Khan
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
~ Lucretius
Only religion can lead to such evil.
~ Unknown
Matem os infiéis! Queimem os hereges! O que é novo é apenas o fato de que hoje em dia ele é vendido ao público sob o rótulo de "ciência".
~ Ludwig von Mises
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? —REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR
~ Jodi Picoult