Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Eric Hobsbawm

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

Eric Hobsbawm

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle .

Noam Chomsky

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.

Pope Francis

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.

Lionel Jospin

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

Lawrence M. Krauss

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Antonio Tabucchi

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.

Nikki Giovanni

Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears and the fearlessness.

Liz Rosenberg

Knowing her, she'll be riding next week. She is a fearless girl.

Herbert Sloane

I yelled 'get me out' several times, and the next thing I knew I realized somebody was pulling me out of the plane. My instinctive fear was the gasoline.

Brendan Shanahan

He just knows how to play the game. Most times, I'm the one standing in front but if I'm not there, he has no fear of going in there and doing that job. The goal isn't scored unless Steve's screening the goalie.

Steven Gerrard

He just goes out there as if he's going for a knockabout with his friends. He has no fear.

Steven Gerrard

He just goes out there as if he's going for a knockabout with his friends, ... He has no fear.

Morris Gleitzman

Halfway through primary school, I realised that I was not as physically strong or fearless as many kids. So, in situations of conflict, I quickly learned that it worked better for me to get out of situations or maybe kind of, you know, prevail in a conflict situation by using humour than by trying to punch somebody out.

Steve Irwin

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

Suzy Kassem

Fear the vulture, and the vulture will come. Fear nothing, and you are the vulture.

Umberto Eco

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.

Warren E. Burger

There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Sarah Churchwell

Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

Sandra Bullock

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

Walter Lang

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

William Julius Wilson

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.

Zoe Saldana

I've witnessed racism all my life. And of course there's racism and discrimination in Hollywood. You go for a part and they say, 'Oh, we really liked her, she's amazing, but we wanted to go with something more traditional'. As if I'm not a traditional American!

Neal Boortz

Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.

Margaret Walker

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.