Quotes of Xenophobia - somelinesforyou

“ I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism and sexism. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ We are sleepwalking our way to segregation. ”

- Trevor Phillips

“ We are sleepwalking to segregation. ”

- Trevor Phillips

“ As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. ”

- Bell Hooks

“ Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy? ”

- Joseph Brodsky

“ Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. ”

- Arthur Ashe

“ It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive. ”

- Ingrid Newkirk
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