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Quotes About Xenophobia

Others did not fare so well. A German man in St. Louis who was believed to have spoken ill of his adopted country was set upon by a mob, dragged through the streets tied up in an American flag, and hanged. A jury subsequently found the mob leaders not guilty on the grounds that it had been a "patriotic murder.
~ Bill Bryson
We ought to respect foreigners and distance ourselves from xenophobic attitudes. Racism should have no place in the Christian church.
~ T. Desmond Alexander
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~ Tanuja Desai Hidier
His version of conservative populism played into the nativism, racism, sexism, insular xenophobic nationalism, and white rage that all had deep histories in this country. Not only were these uglier values part of the American political tradition, but in varying degrees they had served as a foundation of the strategies used by politicians who championed white working-and middle-class Americans. Trump just took it to another level and did so without any sense of hesitation or shame.
~ Julian E. Zelizer
Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
~ Maajid Nawaz
Israelis are displaying buds of xenophobia.
~ Eli Yishai
If saying 'Italians first' is xenophobic, then I don't know what to say.
~ Matteo Salvini
The problem, however, was not with the idea of national identity itself; the problem was the narrow, ethnically based, intolerant, aggressive, and deeply illiberal form that national identity took.
~ Francis Fukuyama
Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.
~ Horatio Nelson
We - America - have to move past the ideology, the tribalism, that grips this country. As ridiculous as this sounds, I believe 'Black Panther,' the film, could help us do that if it addresses issues of tribal polarization and, by extension, racism, xenophobia, and homophobia in an entertaining, non-preachy way.
~ Christopher Priest
Each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn't want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too many Jews
~ Chaim Weizmann
I'm sick of seeing the immigrants in the hotels and the Italians who sleep in cars. This is the racist country.
~ Matteo Salvini
We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
~ Umberto Eco
Whether it is tribalism, racism, xenophobia, or anti-Muslim backlash we're talking about, we spend so much time and energy fighting ways to divide ourselves from others.
~ Loretta Lynch
When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.
~ Larry Wilmore
There hasn't been a war fought on American soil in more than 145 years. We've been distanced, protected, and made safe from the fear and horrors of war, especially from the possibility of having one in our own backyard...In the United States, we have helped support and create a government and a media machine that puts us in a bubble, reinforces a xenophobic view of the world, and puts all of our troubles "out of sight and out of mind.
~ Brian Wood
The cognate word xenos can mean both "stranger" and "friend"; it is the root from which we get the English word "xenophobia," the fear of strangers or foreigners, as well as the sadly less common "xenophilia," the love of strangers or of unknown objects.
~ Homer
False allegations of racism, bigotry, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and now lying each have their own chapter in the Trump takedown playbook.
~ Kayleigh McEnany
We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.
~ Lin-Manuel Miranda
When I heard Donald Trump make that sweeping hysterical statement that all Muslims have to be banned because they are terrorists, I was chilled by that.
~ George Takei
No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
~ Rabih Alameddine
After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.
~ Naomi Klein
The power of the individual, market forces, and the private sector permeate our lives. With that power comes responsibility to address huge challenges. Climate change cannot be solved by governments alone. Xenophobia, hatred, and intolerance - more business leaders have to play a role in trying to be positive leaders, civic leaders.
~ Daniel Lubetzky
Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.
~ Mohsin Hamid