Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."
Xenophobia quotes
Xenophobia
51 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
Dennis Miller
Comedian
"Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble."
Desmond Tutu
Theologian, Activist
"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."
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"Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply."
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"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"
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"That's unfortunately common - to blame immigrants, to blame the African-Americans who are being helped by federal programs, to blame anyone available, to direct attention away from the roots of the distress which you're suffering. This combines with xenophobia, white supremacy, racism, misogyny, and other quite unpleasant phenomena which are far from being eradicated. All of this makes for a pretty dangerous brew. But economic issues are right in the center of it. And you can see this in the fact that so many former Obama voters now voted for Trump, or just didn't bother voting."
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"Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism."
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"In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe... and an attack on the remnants of the welfare state. It's hard to interpret the austerity-in-the-midst-of-recession policy as anything other than attack on the social contract."
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"Donald Trump's impulsivity concerns me. He's fanning the flames of xenophobia and Islamophobia and the American people are speaking out against it."
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"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."
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