Ethnic Groups Quotes

• Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

  Dalai Lama

  Common Sense, Together, Today

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• During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.

  Xi Jinping

  Beautiful, Home, Long

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• If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or racial groups or political groups are killing each other, or families have been feuding for years and years, you can see - because you're not particularly invested in that particular argument - that there will never be peace until somebody softens what is rigid in their heart.

  Pema Chodron

  Religious, Peace, Heart

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• I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Believe, Groups, Culture

  "Prime Ministers". Book by Rennay Craats, 2000.

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• Every ethnic group thinks they are the chosen ones.

  Harvey Pekar

  Thinking, Groups, Chosen One

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• God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and ethnic groups comes from sin-and sin resides in the human heart. The Bible says, “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?” (James 4:1). When one group or one race claims it is superior to another, pride has taken control-and pride is a sin.Instead, God wants us to learn to accept each other and love each other-and this becomes possible, as we turn our lives over to Christ and allow Him to change us from within.

  Billy Graham

  Taken, Heart, Fighting

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Aug 09, 2015

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• There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

  Edward Abbey

  Two, People, Groups

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• Sometimes I wonder about the people who can do very reflective work about their own ethnic group or their own families, or comedies that take place in the life that they've grown up in. That's a very special fortitude. Other brains have a curiosity for what they don't know - the life they're not leading.

  Debra Granik

  People, Brain, Curiosity

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups in continuing to liberate our way of thinking, carry on reform and opening, further unleash and develop the productive forces, work hard to resolve the difficulties the people face in both work and life, and steadfastly take the road of prosperity for all.

  Xi Jinping

  Work, Party, Responsibility

  "Eyes on China's direction under new leadership". Interview with Stephen McDonell, www.abc.net.au. November 15, 2012.

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• Good motives aside, white condescension does more damage than good. White condescension says to a black child, 'The rules used by other ethnic groups don't apply to you. Forget about work hard, get an education, posses good values. No, for you, we'll alter the rules by lowering the standards and expecting less.' Expect less, get less.

  Larry Elder

  Children, Hard Work, White

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• Essentially, I mean the almost self-evident fact that individuals, ethnic groups, and races differ among themselves in intelligence and in many other traits, and that intelligence, as well as less controversial traits of temperament, are in large part hereditary.

  Murray Rothbard

  Mean, Race, Self

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• This country, the Republic of Indonesia, does not belong to any group, nor to any religion, nor to any ethnic group, nor to any group with customs and traditions, but the property of all of us from Sabang to Merauke!

  Sukarno

  Country, Groups, Doe

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• Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Black, Groups, Minorities

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• School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.

  Eli Broad

  School, People, Office

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Eli Broad". Interview with John A. Byrne, www.bloomberg.com. December 2, 2002.

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• With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race.

  Edward Kennedy

  Book, Gay, Race

  "America's moment of truth" by Andrew Rawnsley, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2008.

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• The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.

  Aristide Briand

  Europe, League, Groups

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• And if we are to open employment opportunities in this country for members of all races and creeds, then the Federal Government must set an example. The President himself must set the key example. I am not going to promise a Cabinet post or any other post to any race or ethnic group. That is racism in reverse at its worst. So I do not promise to consider race or religion in my appointments if I am successful. I promise only that I will not consider them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Successful, Opportunity

  Campaign speech, Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, October 17, 1960.

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• I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot.

  William J. Clinton

  Patriotic, Opportunity, Groups

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1057, Best Books on

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• The question taxpayers keep asking is 'why should we pay for services for those who have broken the law to get here?' They should not, nor should they be forced to be the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and School District of the world. This is evidenced in every poll I have seen indicating that every ethnic group is opposed to illegal immigration and supports enforcement of the law.

  Michael D. Antonovich

  School, Organization, Law

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• ...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or declining, how they are distributed as between different ages, sexes, and different social classes and racial and ethnic groups, and again, which way these numbers are moving.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Sex, Moving, Government

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• People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. George Bush and an Australian Aborigine have fewer differences than a Lhasa apso and a toy fox terrier. A Japanese raised in Riyadh would be an Arab. A Zulu raised in New Rochelle would be an orthodontist. People are all the same, though their circumstances differ terribly.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dog, Race, Differences

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• Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Party, Believe, Political

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• On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers.

  Cliff Stearns

  Religious, September 11, Groups

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• The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians as gangsters, Saudis as terrorists or Mexicans as violent drug dealers you'll never hear the end of it. But as still the largest - and possibly the richest - ethnic group in the States, the British just have to take it.

  Simon Hoggart

  Drug, Hollywood, Groups

  "What do men guilty of 'inappropriate behaviour' think they will get from it?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2013.

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• One of the basic tenets of radical feminism is that any woman in the world has more in common with any other woman regardless of class, race, age, ethnic group, nationality - than any woman has with any man.

  Sonia Johnson

  Men, Race, Radical Feminism

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr

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