Ed Schultz Quotes

Early on in Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, Republicans were confronted almost daily with a clear choice: accept Trump's overt appeals to the bigotry and racism festering in the bowels of the nation, or reject it wholly. Far too many chose the former.

Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible.

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

The current Republican Party is not really the Republican Party. It's been hijacked by this group that is not just Islamophobic but, really, xenophobic. They believe in sort of white, middle America, gun-toting - it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people.

We’re going to send Mr. Obama home back to Kenya.

anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-education, anti-environment.

Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists.

It turns out that the Republican Party is not a hero to anyone but the racist, xenophobic caricature of a candidate that is Donald Trump.

We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.

The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

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

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

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

Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.

The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Xenophobia is not what this country stands for but it is what it is built on.

A Jap’s a Jap. It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen or not. I don’t want any of them ...

David Duke is not a Republican. He is a pretender, a charlatan and a political opportunist who is looking for any organization he can find to try to legitimize his views of racial and religious bigotry and intolerance.

Jessie Helms is an evil man.