386 Quotes About Xenophobia

... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

As long as we build walls around our cities, we make desperate people who want to come in more resolute to bring them down.

In May 1925, President Calvin Coolidge signed the National Origins Act into law. The new law effectively closed the United States to most Jewish immigrants. During the debate, Coolidge told the American people:"Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action... We cast no aspersions on any race or creed, but we must remember that every object of our institutions of society and government will fail unless America be kept American.

I've hated some of them too. Most of them sometimes. And they do think differently, but that's a good thing, isn't it? A hand isn't a f-foot, but I need them both to hunt.

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

When we image borders, we fail at imaging God.

The fact that the Hegnish have absolutely no interest in any people except themselves can also cause offense, or even rage. Foreigners exist. That is all the Hegnish know about them, and all they care to know. They are too polite to say that it is a pity that foreigners exist, but if they had to think about it, they would think so.

Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions.