Quotes About Division

The Great Seal has got it all - everything liberals despise is there, front and center.

When people were selling the politics of fear and division and destruction, we were talking about hope. We were talking about the politics of joy.

If you tap people's racial anxieties, you're not going to get them to be able to hear any of your facts.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

President Trump's daily assault on our own democracy, on its institutions, on its values, on its people, that's deeply tarnished our ability to lead.

Indeed, President Trump has proven himself the professional - the adult in the room as Democrats act like small children, incapable of stepping up to the task at hand and certainly incapable of leading the nation.

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

The NAACP believes the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party believes the NAACP is racist.

What is interesting is that, although it is framed as a war between the elites and Main Street, the Tea Party is actually really good for the elites.

The Tea Party ain't nothing but the Klan in street clothes. I liked 'em better when they were in the sheets, at least I could spot them.

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.

The 28th Division situation is going from bad to worse," First Army's war diary noted on Tuesday. Cota could only agree.

Mortar fragments caused 70 percent of the battle casualties among four U.S. infantry divisions in Normandy;

Conflict occurs when the emphasis in a relationship is on the differences between people. The more divided you seem to be, the sooner you fall.

Haldeman exposed the other side of the Silent Majority rhetorical coin: it welcomed division. It welcomed hate. For if the world was divided between good and evil, hating evil was the appropriate response. And what violations of procedural nicety weren't permissible in order to vanquish evil?

Do Americans not hate each other enough to fantasize about killing one another, in cold blood, over political and cultural disagreements? It would be hard to argue they do not. How did Nixonland end? It has not ended yet.

Nixonland is what happens when these two groups try to occupy a country together. By the end of the 1960s, Nixonland came to encompass the entire political culture of the United States. It would, in fact, for the next fifty years.

The DNC was right: an amazingly large segment of the population disliked and mistrusted Richard Nixon instinctively. What they did not acknowledge was that an amazingly large segment of the population also trusted him as their savior. "Nixonland" is what happens when these two groups try to occupy a country together. By the end of the 1960s, Nixonland came to encompass the entire political culture of the United States.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.