Quotes – X

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

―Albert Einstein

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

―Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism”.

―Adam Hochschild

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action”.

―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

“Xenophobia doesn’t benefit anybody unless you’re playing high-stakes Scrabble”.

―Dennis Miller

“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

“I hear a lot of talk today about xenophobia. Is it really phobia if you have something to be afraid of?”

―Bill Maher

“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

“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

“Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth”.

―Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“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

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

―Bertrand Russell

“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

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

―Calvin Coolidge

“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

“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

“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

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

―Eric Hobsbawm

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

―Bernie Sanders

“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

“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