{"quotes":[{"text":"Multilate. Ha Ha Ha,' said Nusswan, avuncular and willing to pretend it was a clever joke. 'Its all relative. At the best of times, democracy is a see saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion. You see, to make a democratic omelette you have to break a few democratic eggs. To fight fascism and other evil forces threatening our country, there is nothing wrong in taking strong measures. Especially when the foreign hand is always interfering to destabilize us. Did you know the CIA is trying to sabotage the Family Planning Programme?","author":"Rohinton Mistry","tags":["a-fine-balance","democracy","emergency","xenophobia"],"id":2229,"author_id":"Rohinton+Mistry"},{"text":"Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["borders","countries","money","poor","poor-people","poverty","social-constructs","xenophobia"],"id":5038,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I come by my alarmism honestly. I have learned this custom over the years as I have settled into being a true New Yorker. This is how we welcome foreigners to our shores. Because we are so often frightened by living here, we are annoyed and offended when visitors fail to show the proper signs of terror. So we try to scare the living daylights out of them.","author":"David Rakoff","tags":["fear","irony","new-yorker","xenophobia"],"id":5306,"author_id":"David+Rakoff"},{"text":"We should, however, not forget that ethnic cleansing, especially of nonwhite Muslim peoples, has old historical roots in Russia. John Dunlop, for instance, reminds us that “in May 1856, Count Kiselev, minister of state domains, informed officials in the Crimea that Alexander [tsar Alexander II] was interested in ‘cleansing’ (Kiselev used the verb oshishchat’) Crimea of as many Tatars as possible.” That the tsarist empire was interested in annexing foreign lands, but not in annexing foreign peoples, was expressed by the famous remark of a tsarist minister that “Russia needs Armenia, but she has no need of Armenians.” [192].","author":"Marcel H. Van Herpen","tags":["ethnic-cleansing","history","population-policy","russia","xenophobia"],"id":22377,"author_id":"Marcel+H.+Van+Herpen"},{"text":"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.","author":"Theodore Roosevelt","tags":["americanism","immigration","patriotism","xenophobia"],"id":27448,"author_id":"Theodore+Roosevelt"},{"text":"There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["agape-love","angel-art","anti-racism","beauty","beauty-in-nature","believing-in-love","brexit","choosing-love-over-fear","choosing-love-over-hate","coexistence","color","community","compassion","compassion-saves-lives","courage-to-love","cross-culturalism","cultural-literacy","demographic-shifts","demographics","diversity","election-year-politics","european-union","grace","hate-crimes","hatred","hope-for-humanity","immigration","jealousy","love-for-humanity","millennial-generation","millennials","mindfulness","multiculturalismo","multiculturalità","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","peacism","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","practicing-love","practicing-peace","race-and-racism","rainbow","rainbows","regrexit","spirit-of-cooperation","spiritual-philosophy","spirituality","sustainable-humanity","teaching-diversity","teaching-multiculturalism","we-are-charleston","we-are-humanity","we-are-orlando","wearecharleston","weareorlando","wisdom","xenophobia"],"id":36340,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"If you do finish the book and are still scared of me and people of my ilk, then I recommend you schedule an appointment with a therapist. Either that, or try writing your own book.","author":"Maz Jobrani","tags":["comedy","mental-illness","middle-eastern","muslim","racism","stand-up","therapy","xenophobia"],"id":102969,"author_id":"Maz+Jobrani"},{"text":"We can reach a global harmony if we remove xenophobia.","author":"Neda Aria","tags":["globalism","hatred-of-others","humanism","humanity","xenophobia"],"id":102983,"author_id":"Neda+Aria"},{"text":"Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it, 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read, 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.","author":"Abraham Lincoln","tags":["1855","america","hypocrisy","joshua-speed","prejudice","racism","xenophobia"],"id":136800,"author_id":"Abraham+Lincoln"},{"text":"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.","author":"Bertrand Russell","tags":["discrimination","exclusion","fear","herd-behavior","herd-mentality","violence","xenophobia"],"id":136944,"author_id":"Bertrand+Russell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":45,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}