"Burn all synagogues.
Destroy all Jewish dwellings.
Confiscate the Jews' holy books.
Forbid rabbis to teach.
Forbid Jews to travel.
Forbid Jews to charge interest on loans to non-Jews and confiscate Jewish property.
Force Jews to do physical labor.
Expel the Jews from provinces where Christians live."
- Martin Luther in the pamphlet "Concerning the Jews and Their Lies." Early sixteenth century.

"In Morocco in 1907, a huge massacre of Jews took place in Casablanca, along with the usual embellishments-rape, women carried away into the mountains, hundreds of homes and shops burned, etc... In 1912 a big massacre in Fez...girls and women raped in front of their families, the stomachs of pregnant women slashed open, the infants ripped out of them, children smashed with crowbars... All this can be found in the newspapers of the time, including the local Arab papers."
"Roughly speaking and in the best of cases, the Jew is protected like a dog which is part of man's property, but if he raises his head or acts like a man, then he must be beaten so that he will always remember his status."
- Writings of Albert Memmi, a noted French Jewish novelist

"Some of them [the Jews] had their skins flayed off them and their flesh was flung to the dogs. The hands and feet of others were cut off and they were flung onto the roadway where carts ran over them and they were trodden underfoot by horses.And many were buried alive. Children were slaughtered in their mothers' bosoms and many children were torn apart like fish. They ripped up the bellies of pregnant women, took out the unborn children, and flung them in their faces. They tore open the bellies of some of them and placed a living cat within the belly and left them alive thus, first cutting off their hands so that they should not be able to take the living cat out of the belly and there was never an unnatural death in the world that they did not inflict upon them."
- Contemporaneous description of a typical Chmelnitzky massacre, 1648.

"[The Jews are] our masters and our enemies, whom we detest... the most abominable people in the world. In short they are a totally ignorant nation who, for many years, have combined contemptible miserliness and the most revolting superstition with a violent hatred of all those nations that have tolerated them... your priests have always sacrificed human victims with their sacred hands."
- Voltaire's Dictionnaire Philosophique, in which 30 of his 118 articles described the Jews, Eighteenth Century.

"Give them civil rights? I see no other way of doing this except to cut off all their heads one night and substitute other heads without a single Jewish thought in them. How shall we defend ourselves against them? I see no alternative but to conquer their promised land for them and to dispatch them all there. If they were granted civil rights they would trample on other citizens."
- Johann Fichte, a leader of the German Enlightenment, late nineteenth century.

"The euthanasia of Judaism can only be achieved by means of a pure, moral religion, and the abandonment of all old legal regulations."
- Immanuel Kant, major German thinker of the late eighteenth century.

"What is the secular cult of the Jew? Haggling.
What is his secular god? Money.
Well them! Emancipation from haggling and money, from practical, real Judaism would be the self-emancipation of our time! Money is the jealous God of Israel, besides which no other God may stand."
- Karl Marx in one of his first major essays, "On the Jewish Question," mid nineteenth century.

"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the labor leaders, and I did not speak out - because I was not a labor leader.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me."
- Reverend Martin Niemoellier, a pastor in the German Confessing Church who spent seven years in a concentration camp.

"During the late 1800's when economic conditions were poor in eastern European countries such as Russia, Poland, Lithuania, and Bulgaria, anti-Jewish hatemongers were successful in preaching out against Jews. 'Everything is because of the Jews' was their main argument. Most people who suffered from this economic oppression were also uneducated; they would believe anything, especially when they were given the opportunity to lay the blame on someone besides themselves.
Poor people's only pleasure was drinking; it was the only thing they could afford. Then once they were drunk they would form posses and take wooden bats, shovels, and even guns with them and ride into Jewish villages. They would just batter the Jews on the streets. These attacks are called pogroms. The Jews had no sense of security. They lived in a constant state of fear.
Luckily, most of my family was able to escape from Russia and immigrate to the United States. I was born here."
- William "Velvel" Goldberg, a Jewish salesman who goes by the name of "William Gray" in order to avoid discrimination on the base of his common Jewish last name.

"At that time, the Jews couldn't teach, they couldn't enter schools, unless they were very rich maybe. You had to pay for everything. That's why my father paid for me. I got the right [to live in Kiev] because I was a student. It was approved by the government. Jews there were quite a few - half and half, I would say, in my class. But the Jewish girl or boy had to know twice as much to give him a high mark. A Jew was hated.
I had friends, Gentile students, in Kiev, but they were not so close. Mostly I had a Jewish environment, you know, and [I was separated] in high school because of antisemitism."
- Anuta Sharrow, recounting her childhood in Kiev.

"Do not use the expression 'the wicked soldiers who were ill-treating Jesus,' without taking care that the children do not identify 'to be a soldier' with 'to be wicked' . . . One should not speak of 'wicked soldiers,' but of 'wicked Jews.' In the Passion narrative the soldiers should be treated as simply doing what they are ordered to do."
"The Jews turned their backs on God, they refused His Son and they worshipped pagan gods. And they have been sorely punished for centuries as a result . . . They are not really wanted anywhere."
"Jewish suffering is divinely inspired"
"God preserves them [Jews] so that they may continue to expiate their national crime."
- Warning notes written to the Sunday school teacher in a widely used Christian book for younger children, 1957.

"Two of the condemned at a time were guided to the two cages in the center of the stage and forced to kneel down while the verdicts were read to them. A monk confessor was assigned to each of them to make sure that up until the last moment the condemned victim, in spite of his protest, was under relentless pressure to save his soul. Each time when one of the condemned, in panic over the horrible anticipation of being burned alive, repented, the Grand Inquisitor rubbed his hands triumphantly over the capture of another soul and the victim was lead away to be strangled benevolently before being burned. Those who were burned alive had the crucifixes thrust into their faces until they had ascended their individual stakes and the wood had been set on fire.
The Jews were not taken to the cages but to wooden stakes on which each of them had to put his right hand which was then hammered on the cross with a long nail. In this position the Jew had to listen to the accusations hurled against him and to the verdict that he be burned alive. Originally the Jews were burned like the conversos and non-Jews, the heretics, on individual stakes, but later, in order to accelerate extermination, they were placed, several at a time, in one of the hollow ceramic towers called quemaderos ("burners"), four of which were placed on a stone platform and heated with wood piled high around them."
- Account of exterminations during the Spanish Inquisition, early sixteenth century.