Quotes About Xenophobia

#1. I wanted to write about racism and xenophobia in 21st Century England and Ireland, but I wanted to do it in an exciting way so that I could reach more readers. Zombies seemed like a good way to do that.

Darren Shan

#2. Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#3. I think that what Donald Trump is doing, the way in which racism, xenophobia, anti-Muslim belief and the like are being expressed through the campaign of Donald Trump, calls for, I think, a very vigorous and aggressive response to what he's saying.

Michael Eric Dyson

#4. I learned early that the one truly international quality among people of all races is xenophobia.

Christopher Lee

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

Lawrence M. Krauss

#6. By the eighteenth century many were showing all the negative conservatism of a vested interest overtaken by events: dogged devotion to old techniques, suspicion of innovation, resentment of competition and xenophobia.

Timothy C.W. Blanning

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

Bill Maher

#8. It may be that only when xenophobia stops working as an election winner will the way be cleared for a return to bipartisanship

Donald Horne

#9. No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

Rabih Alameddine

#10. 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

#11. ...the first move to a more tolerant Australia must come from controlling the aversion to Muslims that is at present the principal xenophobia in this country.

Donald Horne

#12. 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

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

Dennis Miller

#14. Xenophobia is when you smile at people and they don't smile back.

Neel Burton

#15. We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#16. She engaged in a few moments of recreational xenophobia, which didn't help at all but did pass the time. Someone

T. Kingfisher

#17. 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

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

Eric Hobsbawm

#19. Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years.

Desmond Tutu

#20. Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

P. J. O'Rourke

#21. The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise

Assata Shakur

#22. 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

#23. He did not put his feelings down to simple xenophobia. Basically, he hadn't expected the alien to be so completely alien.

Alan Dean Foster

#24. We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.

Bennie Thompson

#25. Xenophobia is fairly widespread in Russia.

Alexei Navalny

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. What we have got to do immediately is to say that racism and xenophobia is totally unacceptable and we will stand with the 1 percent of our population who are Muslims, for undocumented people in this country. Absolutely, we will stand.

Bernie Sanders

#29. 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

#30. What is passing for religion in most of the Earth now is its opposite: xenophobia and road rage.

Richard Grossinger

#31. Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if we all got along. If there were no terrorism, Islamophobia, Western hypocrisy, corrupt government in African countries (especially Liberia), sexism, nativism, people like Donald Trump, stereotypes, war, Capitalism, Communism, Marxism and xenophobia.

Henry Johnson Jr

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

Eric Hobsbawm

#33. I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.

Raquel Cepeda

#34. It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance associated with it

Lionel Jospin

#35. . . . Mrs. Arcanum considered foreign parts only marginally less unspeakable than private parts. . .

Terry Pratchett

#36. If you do finish the book and are still scared of me and people of my ilk, then I recommend you schedule an appointment with a therapist. Either that, or try writing your own book

Maz Jobrani

#37. I've hated some of them too. Most of them sometimes. And they do think differently, but that's a good thing, isn't it? A hand isn't a f-foot, but I need them both to hunt.

Peadar O'Guilin

#38. That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...

Elizabeth Gaskell

#39. Someone foreign is our enemy.
And we are the foreign enemy of someone.

Tina Sequeira

#40. The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.

David Levithan

#41. I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

Michel De Montaigne

#42. In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost ... especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers.

Col. Thomas Aspinwall

#43. People tend 2 choke
that which they do not understand

Tupac Shakur

#44. Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Theodore Roosevelt

#45. Ten wagons to choose from and you pick the only one that has a human on it. Racist.

Jeffery Russell

#46. History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

Claudio Magris

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

Bertrand Russell

#48. In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

C.J. Sansom

#49. The guard looked from one to the other. His mind was soon made up. His training led him to despise foreigners, and to respect and admire well-dressed gentleman who travelled first class.

Agatha Christie

#50. Remember that when you say 'I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange,' you have denied America with that word.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#51. We of alien looks or words must stick together.

C.J. Sansom

#52. Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#53. All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

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

Calvin Coolidge

#55. Jija killed his own son for what a completely different person did, long before that son's birth. This, more than anything, helps her finally understand that there is no reasoning with her father's hatred.

N.K. Jemisin

#56. When you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

Ann M. Martin