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Quotes About Divisiveness

So many of the schools are just politically correct mirrors of each other. If you go to this school versus that school, you're just going to get a different version of the same political correctness and liberal indoctrination.
~ Jerry Falwell, Jr.
While I might not agree with everything Donald Trump says, I proudly stand with Donald Trump.
~ Darryl Glenn
Donald Trump is a bigot.
~ Shaun King
Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.
~ Chelsea Clinton
The epithet "monolithic" is often used as a term of praise in this country; but a monolith is a mass of stone. Human beings are far more complex.
~ Ilya Ehrenburg
People in this country don't realize how tyrannical the Left is. It is phenomenally intolerant of any views other than its own, and it must label them as bad, evil, malodorous in some way.
~ Ken Cuccinelli
When Trump says, 'Make America great again,' he is referencing an era when people were singled out and harmed because of their race and religious beliefs, and when violent enforcement of Jim Crow masqueraded as the will of the people.
~ DeRay Mckesson
Only religion can lead to such evil.
~ Unknown
His ability came from being raised in Blackford County, Indiana, where cussing among men was as necessary as church on Sunday. Except, in Wade's case, it was church on Saturday, because Wade's daddy was a religious bigot who hated Jews, Negroes, Catholics, Coca Cola (which represented frivolity and broken dietary laws), F.D.R., city people, country people, and members of his own 7th Day Adventist church.
~ Jack Cady
When we recognize that all of us, of whatever sexual orientation, are created by God, that we are all fallen sinners, and that we can all be redeemed by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, homosexuality will no longer be a divisive issue.
~ Unknown
I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.
~ Jacob Lew
I'm not an anti-feminist! Of course you're not, Garp told her. They make everything so black and white. Of course they do, said Garp. That's why I hate them. They force you to be like them - or else you're their enemy. Yes, yes, Garp said. I wish I could talk.
~ John Irving
Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not divisive.Those fighting to keep those people out - are.
~ Jon Stewart
I think the Moslem faith teaches hate.
~ Jerry Falwell
Ahora que esta amenaza [la agresión soviética] ha sido eliminada, han surgido otros problemas... Existe un enorme incentivo para trabajar cooperativamente. Pero las fuerzas del nacionalismo, el proteccionismo y los conflictos religiosos avanzan en dirección contraria. El nuevo orden mundial debe desarrollar un mundo cooperativo y encontrar nuevos medios para reprimir dichas fuerzas divisorias
~ Unknown
One hundred thirty years after Abe Lincoln, re Republicans have got the anti-black vote and it's bigger than any Democratic Presidential candidate can cope with.
~ John Updike
Christians label those who disagree with them heretics and false teachers.
~ Unknown
Vilifying opponents "is too much the practice of many of our sects and parties.
~ Unknown
There are two choices: to be human, made in the image of God, with Jesus; warp to be in human, consumed with greed and on aware of the pain that is inflicted upon others. Put in simple options, it is to be human and forgive, make peace in spite of all hatred, or to be in human and kill, dividing the spoils. To be dead before you die.
~ Megan McKenna
Some see in our rancorous politics a surfeit of moral conviction: too many people believe too deeply, too stridently, in their own convictions and want to impose them on everyone else.
~ Michael J. Sandel
Ideological and political intolerance, even with the best and most sincere intentions, produces results that are the direct opposite of those intended.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
Regional separatism, xenophobia, anti-immigrant campaigns, and religious fundamentalisms all stand to benefit from the decay of power.
~ Moisés Naím
Politics is a highly tribal business.
~ Nick Clegg
I mean, that guy who wants to be President, that Jarret, he would call you all heathens or pagans or something." Indeed, he would. "Yes," I said. "He does seem to enjoy calling people things like that. Once he's made everyone who isn't like him sound evil, then he can blame them for problems he knows they didn't cause. That's easier than trying to fix the problems.
~ Octavia E. Butler