{"quotes":[{"text":"The genocide [in Rwanda] was not a spontaneous eruption of tribal hatred, it was planned by people wanting to keep power. There was a long government-led hat campaign against the Tutsis.","author":"Jonathan Glover","tags":["hatred","rwanda","rwandan-genocide","tribalism"],"id":11094,"author_id":"Jonathan+Glover"},{"text":"Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.","author":"Hermann Bondi","tags":["atheism","bind","characteristics","division","human-characteristics","humanity","one","religious-division","together","tribalism","unison"],"id":14326,"author_id":"Hermann+Bondi"},{"text":"Extremism stifles true progression in all fields of human advancement; it is a detriment to everything but war, tribalism and the personal power of Nietzschean entities, striving only for the narcissistic vindication of their ego and will. The enlightened mind knows that all is challengeable, ergo questions all and thus, learns and grows; progression. The weak and narrow mind makes its beliefs sacrosanct; fearful of challenge, their creed becomes unalterable, defended with violence. Political extremists, much like religious zealots, are the latter. They destroy what they cannot convert. They annihilate those they cannot control, or force to conform. They have found no peace in life, no love, and so promote war and division, as emotional cripples – inflicting their own pain and misery and malignant stupidity on the world. Their language binds people together, but only by stirring the darkest excesses of the soul; language of hate, and intolerance, fear and conspiracy, and the need for vengeance. In war-scarred Europe, these cripples direct mass-psychology, and would make the world in their own likeness; mutilated by violence and tribalism and hate.","author":"Daniel S. Fletcher","tags":["advancement","extremism","jackboot","jackboot-britain","lies","manipulation","manipulation-of-facts","political-extremism","political-language","progression","propaganda","sacrosanct","social-indoctrination","terrorism","tribalism","zealotry","zealots"],"id":17135,"author_id":"Daniel+S.+Fletcher"},{"text":"When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best—which will often be the tribe, the totem, or the taboo.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["africa","hopelessness","primitivism","taboo","tribalism"],"id":30686,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Kenya DOES NOT belong to 2 tribes only. Kenya has 42 tribes. To say that the decision of 2 tribes is the decision of the whole country is fallacy and outright dictatorship and tribalismAkuku Mach Pep, Democracy on Trial.","author":"Akuku Mach Pep","tags":["democracy","dictatorship","tribalism"],"id":43212,"author_id":"Akuku+Mach+Pep"},{"text":"There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace the lines of patronage and allegiance that define the state.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["africa","allegiance","loyalty","patronage","politics","tribalism"],"id":57484,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.","author":"Idowu Koyenikan","tags":["africa","africa-house","africa-leaders","africa-people","africa","africa-s-predicament","africa-s-wealth","africa-will-shake","african","african-","african-believes","african-citizens","african-continent","african-cultural","african-culture","african-cup-of-nations","african-descent","african-development","african-development-bank","african-dictators","african-fiction","african-freethinker","african-great-healer","african-great-lakes","african-healer","african-juju","african-languages","african-leaders","african-literature","african-my-motherland","african-national-congress","african-people","african-proverb","african","african-safari","african-saying","african-socialism","african-story-telling","african-traditional-healer","african-union","african-woman","african-women","african-writer","africana","africana-studies","africans","china-achebe","desmond-tutu","kofi-annan","kwame-nkrumah","nelson-mandela","tribal","tribalism","tribe","tribes"],"id":79987,"author_id":"Idowu+Koyenikan"},{"text":"If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now.","author":"Ben Carson","tags":["america","conservative","democrat","liberal","politics","republican","tribalism","voting"],"id":93298,"author_id":"Ben+Carson"},{"text":"The mentality of who is your uncle—an ethnocentric way of thinking, is one of the leading causes of South Sudan’s internal conflicts.","author":"Duop Chak Wuol","tags":["conflict","ethnicity","philosophical","republic-of-south-sudan","south-sudan","tribalism"],"id":97589,"author_id":"Duop+Chak+Wuol"},{"text":"But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...","author":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","tags":["cosmopolitan","equality","nationalism","pride","tribalism","universality"],"id":104015,"author_id":"Jean-Jacques+Rousseau"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}