Eddie Clynes Quotes

Every conceivable cleavage of difference: Sindhi vs. Punjabi, Mohajirs vs. Pathans, Islam vs. Secularism, Shias vs. Sunnis, Deobandis vs. Barelvis, literates vs. illiterates, Woman vs. Man, Urban vs. Rural—has been exploited to magnify dissentions, giving rise to heinous blood baths, accentuated hatred, and intolerance.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

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

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.

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.

I wanted to do away with these divisions—here German, there Jews.

Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

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

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail…unlike is normally situated at a safe distance.

We truly forget how bigoted America was in the 1930's.

The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War II for no really good reason by our most liberal President. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slavelike inequalities.

There is again a rising fever and anger towards those seen as different.

Even one Serb in our parliament is too much

A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.

The racial antipathy of the Occidental for the Oriental, the fierce religious hatred of the Christian for the Mohammedan, are motives actuating the Balkan peoples to a degree inconceivable in America.

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

Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life.

Whether it is tribalism, racism, xenophobia, or anti-Muslim backlash we're talking about, we spend so much time and energy fighting ways to divide ourselves from others.

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.