Quotes About Division

It's important to recognise that opposing racism isn't just about presenting an alternative set of values; it's about looking at how the far right play on people's hardships in order to nurture a sense of enmity between white people and those racialised as migrants.

I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.

The Republicans always do a good job of dividing and conquering. They do a really good job of making black folks, poor white folks, and Hispanics not like each other.

They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.

Pent-up white racism did fire Mr. Trump's candidacy, and he happily fanned the flames.

I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race.

Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.

Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.

A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.

Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us imprisoned: first, they physically isolate us from the outside world and those in it who love us; then they work to divide prisoners from one another by inculcating our distrust in one another.

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.

I don't do much political stuff because our nation is so divided, we can't say one thing without the other side automatically assumes that you are pro the other side.

Anybody in that welterweight division that think they want this, you know you don't, because I'm a problem. I'm a problem in this division.

A politician finds anything to do with racial problems far more frightening than a gun.

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

I'm a person who believes that if a team that's producing a champion and producing contenders in that same division, then the coaches should be proud of that and pat themselves on the back because they're really creating a dynasty, so that's the way I take it.

There needs to be a demarcation between personal and professional lives.

There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. Some of them fail because they break up and civil war breaks out... Often they fail because someone is elected to power who doesn't respect the rules of the democracy.

Donald Trump is a disaster.

If you have a society where a large section believe they are not part of the political discourse, that is a situation for trouble.

There is no civil discourse left and it is really sad.

The disgusting truth is that some of the less-educated families in the Caucasus hate and despise Russians simply because they are Russian, just as some less-educated Russian families feel the same way about people from the Caucasus.

It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.