Xenophobia Quotes

• What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Sad, Spiritual

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• Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Patriotic, Usa, America

  Remarks before Daughters of the American Revolution Convention, Washington, D.C., 21 Apr. 1938. Often paraphrased as Roosevelt's addressing the DAR as "my fellow immigrants."

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  There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Business, Ignorance, Stupidity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Rönnfeldt (1898*). “Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims”

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• It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our political culture. It is shameful to see politicians exploiting these human weaknesses in order to gain political power. It is most depressing of all to contemplate a future in which politicians who do this will continue to have influence over people's lives.

  Allen W. Wood

  Depressing, Persistence, Order

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble.

  Dennis Miller

  Tolerance, Scrabble, Benefits

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.30, Main Street Books

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• Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying.

  Anna Quindlen

  Heart, Racism, Looks

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.151, Random House

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• Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

  Desmond Tutu

  Racism, Slavery, Discrimination

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.51, Random House

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• Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Racism, Tolerance

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge

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• Many people who are forced into emigration suffer and often die tragically; many of their rights are violated, they are obliged to separate from their families and, unfortunately, continue to be subjected to racist attitudes and xenophobia.

  Pope Francis

  Attitude, Rights, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Respect, Believe, Responsibility

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• We can`t allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.

  Bernie Sanders

  Racism, Gains, Traction

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• Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Mean, Land, Civilization

  "I lost a reference with whom I '...want to be someone else but without ceasing to be[me]...'" by PEDRO74, ireport.cnn.com. March 27, 2012.

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• I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, Racism, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often in this country turned to nativism and xenophobia and racism and anti-immigrant sensibilities and passions to express our sense of outrage at what we can't control - and to forge a kind of fitful solidarity that turns out to be rather insular - we look inward and not outward.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Country, Passion, Racism

  "Michael Eric Dyson Wants White People to Step Up and Actually Do Something About Racism". Interview With Will Greenberg, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2017.

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• As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Racism, People, Chinese

  "Mapping the Nation". Book edited by Gopal Balakrishnan and Benedict Anderson, 1996.

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• Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

  Jonas Salk

  Responsibility, Be Good, Ancestor

  "Learning from the Future : Competitive Foresight Scenarios". Book by Liam Fahey and Robert M. Randall, p. 332, 1998.

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• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  Hans Kung

  Hate, Moving, Leader

  Hans Kung (1998). “A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics”, p.143, Oxford University Press

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• Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Looks, Becoming, Century

  "Divided Europeans: Understanding Ethnicities in Conflict". Book edited by Tim Allen and John Eade (p. 41), June 30, 1999.

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• Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Needs, Aliens, Human Nature

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• We`ve got to stand with those people who are being attacked today, but at the same time, it`s not good enough to say that racism and xenophobia is bad. We`ve got to reach those people today who are so angry, who are so hateful and say, yes, you have a right to be angry, don`t take it out on the Muslims. Work with us to create an agenda and political movement that will make your life better, not just other people`s life worse.

  Bernie Sanders

  Racism, People, Not Good Enough

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• Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Justice, Diversity, Soul

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• Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Bases

  "Religious Liberty Equal Freedom to Discriminate?". May 28, 2012.

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• Immigrants have been coming here for a long time. The Americans that are afraid of others coming were immigrants once themselves, so they have a lot of nerve. We have a lot of nerve as a country. The only people that should have xenophobia are Native Americans. Everyone else should shut up.

  Godfrey

  Country, Native American, Should Have

  Interview with Bryce Rudow, thedailybanter.com. January 15, 2014.

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• I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Xenophobia is the hatred of foreigners. I don't hate anyone.

  Marine Le Pen

  Hate, Hatred, Foreigners

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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