Ramsay MacDonald Quotes

... a fixed obsession on Anglo-Saxon superiority.

Patriotism is a sham when it lets out the howl that the people of another nation are a pack of beasts and criminals, unrelated to the human family

When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

We [Germans] are morally and intellectually superior to all men.

People tell me to go back to my country, and I'm an American.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!

I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy.

Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.

Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians and Serbs, of Hungarians and Rumanians. It is evident to them that these enmities are absurd and that the belief of each little nation in its own superiority has no objective basis. But most of them are quite unable to see that the national pride of a Great Power is essentially as unjustifiable as that of a little Balkan country.

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

It graduates to 'our state is better than your state', and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.

In England, I've never really had a problem with racism.

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist. Because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.