Quotes About Xenophobia

To remain silent is to be complicit in the face of the increasing injustice, racism, xenophobia, and intolerance we are currently witnessing today.

The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

All species had some degree of xenophobia hardwired into their brains, even toward aliens they'd come to like. But just as one couldn't be brave in the absence of fear, neither could one be tolerant in the absence of genuine difference.

At first, ordinary citizens had taken matters into their own hands against this Yellow Peril. In Los Angeles, twenty-one Chinese people were shot,197 hanged, or burned alive by white mobs, while in San Francisco, officials tried to forcibly move everyone in Chinatown into an area reserved for pig farms and other businesses that were designated as dirty and disease-ridden, until the courts ruled the policy was unconstitutional.198

Fear knows no borders, and the terminology of hate has seeped into every aspect of life.

I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps.

One thing we've learned is that there's not anything that Nigel Farage won't blame on foreigners.

Fox Newss unique blend of xenophobia and division has always been popular and highly lucrative.

Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

Enclosures of any kind are a fertile breeding ground for hatred of outsiders

The Republican Party - that was the end of the Republican Party. What Pete Wilson did with the xenophobia and the negative attitude, all this sort of anti-crime backlash.

Making America great again, as if to keep the world out. The world and all its fresh ideas and everything that's new and exhilarating and the wind of change that should blow through the world - block it out, wall ourselves up. That for me goes with a small vocabulary. A narrow, confining vocabulary.

The disposition, in any conflict, to side with 'them' against 'us', and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably 'ours'. Being the opposite of xenophobia I propose to call this state of mind oikophobia, by which I mean (stretching the Greek a little) the repudiation of inheritance and home.

None of these countries wanted them: they all had enough Jews already. (None is too many, ministers in Canada and Switzerland said at the time, and other countries felt the same without advertising the fact.)

If America could get a timeout on endless immigration from the Third World, we'd have a chance to reform ourselves and drain these deep sewers of depravity, racism, and xenophobia that liberals keep finding around every corner. They'll be happier. We'll be happier. After a half century of taking in the hardest cases in the world, America needs a little "me time.

When there is fear about the future, it is comforting to take it out on outsiders who can be blamed for the past.

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

Donald Trump has had several foreign wives. It turns out that there really are jobs Americans won't do.

When people say they are angry about "immigration," in other words, they are not always talking about something they have lived and experienced. They are talking about something imaginary, something they fear.

harassment of individual German Americans became commonplace.

In the transformed world political context of today, it is more essential than ever that the critique of democracy in the name of difference developed by oppositional intellectuals be formulated so carefully that these thoughts cannot be exploited for nationalist, tribalist, and xenophobic purposes. It is imperative that the politics of the 'differend' not be settled beyond and at the margins of democratic politics.

Only a few years after building a federal system that cleared the way for equal opportunity, Republicans faced a racist and xenophobic backlash against an active government - and they folded. By the 1880s, the party's leaders had abandoned their message of opportunity and tied themselves to big business.