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ENOPHOBIA
Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam Chomsky

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.
Max von Sydow

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
Stephen Ambrose

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine

Religion at its best is moral patriotism, at its worst it is reckless and destructive jingoism.
anon.

Before I'd build a wall I'd ask to know
what it was I was walling in or walling out

Robert Frost, Mending Wall