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1 " I wish she’d said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can’t hide from it, not even here. "
― Raquel Cepeda , Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
2 " It may be that only when xenophobia stops working as an election winner will the way be cleared for a return to bipartisanship "
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3 " We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness. "
― Vijay Prashad , Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity
4 " The Republican Party - that was the end of the Republican Party. What Pete Wilson did with the xenophobia and the negative attitude, all this sort of anti-crime backlash. "