Mehdi Hasan Quotes

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.

I must confess that when I see anyone with an Obama bumper sticker I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.

What Donald Trump has done is to make it possible for people who had racist, sexist, and all kinds of prejudices and bigotry to put them right out there.

If you unpack the statistics on who is supporting , Donald Trump, it means that there is a lot of people who hold very bigoted racist ideas and there is a lot of them.

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.

There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.

You've got to be taught to hate and fear.

In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

Ronald Reagan got elected by launching his campaign in Mississippi in a very racist way.

Islamaphobia is the only form of racism which is socially acceptable.

There is a culture war being waged against God-fearing, law-abiding, Caucasian, middle class, Protestant, … heterosexual, gun owning Americans.

I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

We're not able to hide behind myths of this being a post-racial society because Donald Trump has outlined exactly how a large portion of America feels.

I went through kindergarten through 12th grade, college, law school and four years of active duty in the U.S. Army and I never once experienced anti-Semitism - until I came to the U.S. House of Representatives.

In many respects, David Duke was the playbook. He established the playbook by which Donald Trump ran and ultimately became - I won't even use the term - let's just say he became the occupant of the White House.

Racist assumptions, ethnolinguistic assumptions of inferiority or superiority, are as old as mankind.

I understand why people could look at things that Donald Trump says and be deeply offended by them and feel that he is not looking out for their best interests.

Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread it.

There are many different types of racism from people of different colours and nationalities. There is no vaccine to fight this and no antibiotics to take. It's a dangerous and infectious virus which is strengthened by indifference and inaction.

Racism is wrong, racism is very dangerous.

America is dealing with the effects of an underreaction to Donald Trump when he was running and when he was Mr. Saying-Racist-Things-on-the-News.

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.