Michael Ignatieff said this quote

Intolerance is a form of divided consciousness in which abstract, conceptual, ideological hatred vanquishes concrete, real and individual moments of identification.

~ Michael Ignatieff

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

~ Michael Ignatieff

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

~ Michael Ignatieff

An ethnic minority can live in peace with an ethnic majority as long as the majority does not use its preponderance to turn the institutions of the state into an instrument of ethnic favoritism or ethnic justice.

~ Michael Ignatieff