Margaret Walker Quotes

Anyone whose mission is keeping people apart is swimming against a very strong tide.

Demonizing the other does not help our cause and does bad things to us.

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

Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.

We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. At times, it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. Argument turns too easily into animosity. Disagreement escalates into dehumanization. Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.

In our own country, you can't divide people.

The rainbow flag is beautiful because it's about love. The Confederate flag is ugly because it's about hate. It's pretty simple from the art level: beautiful versus ugly.

Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.

We are so divided, and we recognize that we're divided, that we're looking for ways to come together.

Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.

You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.

What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.

There are times I think of us all and I wish we were back in second grade. Not really that young. But I wish it felt like second grade. I’m not saying everyone was friends back then. But we all got along. There were groups, but they didn’t really divide. At the end of the day, your class was your class, and you felt like you were a part of it. You had your friends and you had the other kids, but you didn’t really hate anyone longer than a couple of hours. Everybody got a birthday card. In second grade, we were all in it together. Now we’re all apart.

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.