Ethnicity Quotes - Page 6

• I've been demonized as a racist and an extremist. Now, no matter what I say, I mean, I've served in the military with people of all ethnicities and all races but it doesn't matter what I say, I still get demonized and implied to be a racist. So if anybody has any questions on where I stand on that they can ask my good friend Doug Taft who is sitting here on the side and ask him what he thinks about me being a racist.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Military, Mean

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• So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also encouraged, in their employment patters and through their influence in the political arena, recognition of defined ethnic groups, seeking to link them to specific allocated roles in the labor-force, with different levels of real remuneration for their work. Ethnicity created a cultural crust which consolidated the patterns of semi-proletarian household structures.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Real, Division Of Labor, Labor Force

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• Gender, race, ethnicity - these are all morally neutral. But homosexuality is - involves voluntary sexual conduct with serious public health, social, sociological implications. It's not irrational to discriminate on that basis.

  Scott Lively

  Race, Serious, Gender

  "Uganda Punishing Gays: 'Sodomy Is Not A Human Right' Says Evangelical Leader". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Space, Historical, Roles

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.77, Verso

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• In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side by side and intermarry for long periods of time until it becomes valuable to exploit the division. And yes, the division's there because you can always revert back to history, you can always inflame it, but it is manipulated for political ends.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Long, Thought Provoking, Political

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• Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.

  Jeremy Lin

  Hurt, Nba, Play

  Interview with Eric Guilleminault, www.nbadraft.net. June 16, 2010.

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• There are 60 million generators in Nigeria. The generator owners and distributors have a strong incentive to not encourage the distribution of solar and other alternative energies, even though it's better for the country, it's better for people. As a world, we've got to get more serious about confronting those obstacles. This knows no culture, no race, no ethnicity.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Country, Strong, Race

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• As countries appear and disappear, then I began to ask, what makes countries successful? And it turns out, after a long slog through geographies and ethnicities and all kinds of variables, it's the ability to adapt and adopt, what Darwin talked about.

  Juan Enriquez

  Country, Successful, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If you want to speak about different ethnicities and diversity, rap and hip-hop are all over the planet. Every country, from Turkey to Australia, now has tons of hip-hop artists. The music and artistry have moved way faster than the corporatization of the music. You do need organization and opportunity for these artists to express themselves, and I don't think it has to come from a corporate co-signing.

  Chuck D

  Country, Rap, Opportunity

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

  Jeb Bush

  Believe, Race, People

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• Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.

  Eskinder Nega

  Country, Race, Favors

  "Nelson Mandela Was Released From Prison After 27 Years. These 10 Political Prisoners Are Still Waiting" By Dominique Mosbergen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2013.

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• We started an organization that's the only sub-organization of the MacArthur Foundation and we are called the Macarturos. Usually when I win something, I'm the only one of my ethnicity to get it, but this time I met all these Latinos, and I was so excited. I'd meet someone and I'd go, [...] "Can you come to San Antonio?" And they'd go, "Oh yeah." [...] And suddenly I had twelve people that said they would come. And I didn't know how it was going to be. And that's how the Macarturos became a reality, where these very generous geniuses come to San Antonio and work together.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Winning, Reality, Organization

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from wanting to efface our diversity of perspectives, we have to embrace it because that makes us more American, not less. In that sense, he's incredibly modern in an age of cultural pluralism. And it is disappointing for just the reasons you say that not everyone has embraced his pluralistic vision.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Believe, Diversity, Perspective

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there.

  J. J. Watt

  Different, Culture, Melting

  "ESQ&A: J.J. Watt (And His New Haircut)". Interview with Nic Screws, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Whereas your blackness, ethnicity, homosexuality is something that might be genetic, I can't touch that, and I have no right.

  George Carlin

  Might, Homosexuality, Blackness

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• Scripture is vast, and people can pick and choose what they emphasize, and so for hundreds of years verses that said that you are to welcome the stranger, that with Christ there's neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, we've broken down the dividing wall with the original church, where Christians were first called Christian was the church of Antioch in which for the first time you had Jews, Gentiles of all different ethnicities come together as one people. That's when they were called Christians.

  Michael Emerson

  Christian, Wall, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.

  Prefuse 73

  Growing Up, Sensitive, Proactive

  Interview with Jamin Warren, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2005.

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• It is very curious that the United States and Canada both assume that diversity means only race and ethnicity. They never assume it might mean more Nazis, or more Southern Baptists. That's diversity too, you know.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mean, Race, Diversity

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about Renaissance sonnets? The embarrassing truth of the matter was that I was being chosen because Yale University had some peculiar idea about what my skin color or ethnicity signified.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Doors, Color, Class

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• They said, OK, nine [Louis] Brandeis's is too much, but one is OK. So, with friends like that, and so forth. But, yes, the idea that because he was Jewish he would rule a particular way was an ugly undercurrent of the hearings, which resonates with current claims that a judge can't be impartial because of his or her background or ethnicity or race. It's, I guess, a small comfort that in the end the Brandeis vote wasn't close.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Ideas, Race, Judging

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere.

  Ken Jennings

  Powerful, Government, Political

  Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hate, Compassion, Race

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• I don’t want to make an incremental change in some technology in my life. I want to create a whole new technology, and one that is aimed at helping humanity at all levels regardless of geography or ethnicity or age or gender.

  Elizabeth Holmes

  Technology, Humanity, Age

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• It isn't that it's questionable when you speak up for the right of people with different sexual orientation. People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation. People are killed because they're gay.

  Desmond Tutu

  Gay, People, Different

  "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

  Robin Morgan

  Girl, Feminism, Age

  "International Women's Day: In defence of feminist dissent". www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2014.

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