Mark Potok Quotations

The point of doing all of this is so that we as a society can move forward. And the time is really coming when we really are going to turn and face the future.

meeting with extremist anti-government groups and inoculating them against anthrax.

From the beginning, Phelps' group has been the single most vicious anti-gay group in America, bar none.

It is simply ludicrous to describe animal rights and eco-terrorism as the No. 1 threat.

Is Bill White the next David Duke? Out of the question. He will never rise to that level,

It has become the propaganda venue of choice, ... It allows Klansmen who a few years ago could reach only 100 people with a poorly produced pamphlet to reach an audience in the millions.

It is difficult to understand how the leaders of our major national security organizations can see it this way.

I think this is a major area of international law that has yet to be settled.

Very typically these days we see white supremacists, hate groups, trying to use the words of King and other civil rights leaders to try to advance their agendas.

They always claim to be larger and more powerful than they really are,

People expect that these kinds of incidents won't happen in schools and universities.

The movement is interested not so much in developing street thugs who beat up people in bars, but college-bound teens who live in middle-class and upper-class homes.

You often see these groups spring up in response to demographic changes. Some people feel threatened, and they look for a group to blame.

This case could have been made 36 years ago. ... (The FBI) knew what had happened,

Americans ignore the threat of these groups at their peril. Eleven years ago, a pair of extremists carried out a mass killing that included the murder of 19 children. If we're not careful, it could very well happen again.

The notion of radical Islamists from abroad actually getting together with American neo-Nazis I think is an absolutely frightening one, ... It's just that so far we really have no evidence at all to suggest this is any kind of real collaboration.

It's very likely they didn't have direct or public connections to hate groups. It's very likely this was a troubled young man who was attracted to images of power.

I don't think there's anything thus far to suggest a hate crime.

I don't see any evidence that these fires are hate crimes. Anti-Christian crimes are exceedingly rare in the South. It's more likely to be teenagers or a mentally ill person.

I don't see any evidence that these fires are hate crimes.

I don't mean to diminish their activities. They've caused huge property damage and there is very little question they will kill someone these days.

Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder.

What we are seeing is there is a lot of anger out there about the failure of the government to resolve the immigration crisis.

The people blocking buses in Murrieta, California, didn't come from radical groups, they were everyday Americans who were perfectly willing to frighten those children

I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.