“Hate takes a terrible toll on life. Fear is indeed the mind-killer.
We all have the option of living a life of love and compassion,
and I’m here to say that the world really is as beautiful a place
as you care to envision.”
—Arno Michaelis,
My Life After Hate
“Given our political moment, I’m not surprised that we’ve come
to this point. . . . I’m terribly depressed we’ve come to this
point, but I’m not surprised. It didn’t come out of nowhere.”
—Kevin Boyle, American history professor at Northwestern University
“If we look across the data spectrum, hate crimes are confirming
an increase in bigotry that not only exists in society, but is
frequently more mainstreamed and more publicly manifested.”
—Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism
