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“I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.”

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

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”

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Book:Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims

Source: Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims

“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying.”

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Book:Loud and Clear

Source: Loud and Clear

“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.”

“Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.”

Soul Culture Justice Diversity Social Justice Racist Bigotry Xenophobia Dwarfs

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“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.”

“We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness.”

“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”

People Running Black Color Becoming Racism Black People Hostile Becoming More Xenophobia

Author:Assata Shakur

“Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble.”

Benefits Tolerance Stakes Xenophobia Scrabble

Book:Ranting Again

Source: Ranting Again

“Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.”

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Author:Sherman Alexie

“Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.”

Responsibility Be Good Ancestor Xenophobia

Author:Jonas Salk

“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.”

World Said Different Wish Travel Racism Around The World Patriarchy Xenophobia

Book:Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.”

Needs Humans Human Nature Aliens Sufficient Artificial Distrust Xenophobia

Author:Calvin Coolidge

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

Bases Xenophobia

Author:Lawrence M. Krauss