Erykah Badu Quotes

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosives and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own

There is a cost to ignorance and the hate.

If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

Niggas hate what they can't understand, fear what they can't conquer

What the common man cannot understand he hates.

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

I think, we all learned that when we are afraid it's easy to want to blame, and the people we want to blame are the people who don't look like us.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

A Mexican is not as good as a dog and isn’t even worth a bullet to kill him.

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts. Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. We are filled with disgust.

Kill All Foreigners in 3 Months.

We are not born knowing how to hate; we are taught how to hate.

I'll say this: The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.

Most racist people are like sheep. They are people without backbones.

Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.