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Xenophobia is fairly widespread in Russia. -- Alexei Navalny
Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble. -- Dennis Miller
Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle . -- Eric Hobsbawm
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression. -- Antonio Tabucchi
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. -- Albert Einstein
Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply. -- Calvin Coolidge
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We can`t allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction. -- Bernie Sanders
Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. -- Eric Hobsbawm
Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts. -- Hans Kung
It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance associated with it -- Lionel Jospin
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. -- Desmond Tutu
Many people who are forced into emigration suffer and often die tragically; many of their rights are violated, they are obliged to separate from their families and, unfortunately, continue to be subjected to racist attitudes and xenophobia. -- Pope Francis
What we have got to do immediately is to say that racism and xenophobia is totally unacceptable and we will stand with the 1 percent of our population who are Muslims, for undocumented people in this country. Absolutely, we will stand. -- Bernie Sanders
Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years. -- Desmond Tutu
I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples. -- Rigoberta Menchu
In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe... and an attack on the remnants of the welfare state. It's hard to interpret the austerity-in-the-midst-of-recession policy as anything other than attack on the social contract. -- Noam Chomsky
To exclude groups of people because of their faith, this isn't worthy of the free state in which we live. It isn't compatible with our essential values. And its humanly reprehensible, xenophobia, racism, extremism have no place here. We are fighting to ensure that they don't have a place elsewhere either. -- Angela Merkel
Immigrants have been coming here for a long time. The Americans that are afraid of others coming were immigrants once themselves, so they have a lot of nerve. We have a lot of nerve as a country. The only people that should have xenophobia are Native Americans. Everyone else should shut up. -- Godfrey
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance. -- Libba Bray
We of alien looks or words must stick together. -- C.J. Sansom
... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ... -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same. -- Aberjhani
In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing. -- C.J. Sansom
...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation. -- Ann M. Martin
Ten wagons to choose from and you pick the only one that has a human on it. Racist. -- Jeffery Russell
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. -- Theodore Roosevelt
History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner. -- Claudio Magris
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. -- Bertrand Russell
The guard looked from one to the other. His mind was soon made up. His training led him to despise foreigners, and to respect and admire well-dressed gentleman who travelled first class. -- Agatha Christie
By replacing history with fantasy, the Palestinians have invented a society unlike any other, where hatred trumps bread. They have reared children unlike any other children, removed from ordinary norms and behaviors. -- Cynthia Ozick
If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike. -- Aberjhani
Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-consuming hatred. It can only be conquered by recognizing and claiming the wealth of values it represents for all. -- Aberjhani
I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits. -- Michel de Montaigne
BRITANNUS (shocked).Caesar: this is not proper.THEODOTUS (outraged).How!CAESAR (recovering his self-possession).Pardon him. Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. -- George Bernard Shaw
In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers. -- Col. Thomas Aspinwall
All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport -- in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy."[Quoted in Socialism and Foreign Policy and War and the Liberal Conscience] -- George Bernard Shaw
All good people agree, And all good people say,All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They:But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way,You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They! -- Rudyard Kipling
On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence. -- Aberjhani
Why don't they let us explain who we are?' Derin protested 'It's not fair judging us like that without giving us a chance to speak'Marna laughed mirthlessly.'Do you think that would help?' she responded. 'The face of fear has neither eyes nor ears. It is blind and deaf to all but its own terrors. -- Victor Kelleher
The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism. -- David Cross
The horrifying thing is that nearly half of America seems in synch with xenophobia and race-baiting. -- Gene Weingarten
Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism. -- Adam Hochschild
No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism. -- Rabih Alameddine
I hear a lot of talk today about xenophobia. Is it really phobia if you have something to be afraid of? -- Bill Maher
Donald Trump's impulsivity concerns me. He's fanning the flames of xenophobia and Islamophobia and the American people are speaking out against it. -- Andre Carson
We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping. -- Bennie Thompson
To out-group-members, oxytocin makes you crappier - less cooperative and more preemptively aggressive. It's not the luv hormone. It's the in-group parochialism/xenophobia hormone. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise -- Assata Shakur
I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here. -- Raquel Cepeda
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I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia. -- Anna Quindlen

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