Divisive Quotes

“I once heard of a class teacher who’d punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever a student wearing blue shirt had committed a mistake. I thought that was pretty bad. I then heard of a class teacher who’d punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever someone in blue shirt committed a mistake somewhere else. Clearly, the worst is not a reality.”
― Pawan Mishra

“There are largely two types of people who follow divisive politics closely, those who love it and do not understand its nature and those who hate it because they do.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Scapegoating is like the obnoxious Uncle Donald: ignorant, entitled, divisive.”
― Vindy Teja

“A box splits the world in two, differentiating what’s inside of the box from what’s outside of it. And from an organizational perspective that can be very helpful until the contents within and the stuff without forget that they’re part of the same world.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In division others see opportunity, In division I see suffering. In love it does not exist.”
― johnjwillard

“Together we are alive and beautiful, divided we are dead and rotten.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“The reasons for weaponizing division are not mysterious. Racial fear prevents Americans from building community with one another and community is the lifeblood of a functioning democratic society. Throughout our history, racist language has been used to turn American against American in order to benefit the wealthy elite. Every time Mr. Trump attacks refugees is a time that could be spent discussing the president's unwillingness to raise the federal minimum wage for up to 33 million Americans. Every racist attack on four members of Congress is a moment he doesn't have to address why his choice for labor secretary has spent his career defending Wall Street banks and Walmart at the expense of workers. When he is launching attacks on the free press, he isn't talking about why his Environmental Protection Agency just refused to ban a pesticide linked to brain damage in children.

(7/25/2019 in the New York Times)”
― Ilhan Omar