Ethnicity Quotes

Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Life, Unique, People

"Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Speaks on Governance, Elections and Other Issues". Interview with Abdoulaye W. Dukulé, www.theperspective.org. May 6, 2005.

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Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

Thomas Sowell

Race, Color, Green

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Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference.

Dalai Lama

Inspirational, Dream, Religious

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Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

Lauren London

Journey, How You Feel, This Life

Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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People of different ethnicities are definitely not of differing species. Biologically speaking, people are people.

Robert Paul Weston

People, Different, Species

Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Christopher Dodd

Race, Effort, Chance

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Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

Archie Panjabi

World, Sometimes, Relevant

"Archie Panjabi: 'I love roles that transform me'" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

Preston Manning

Race, People, Language

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Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.

Ana Monnar

Heart, Character, Color

Ana Monnar, “Quotation”

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We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy.

Desmond Tutu

Christian, Mother, Children

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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Necessity is the ethnicity of truth.

Kedar Joshi

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True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

Monica Crowley

Mean, Race, Political

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Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.

John Ashcroft

Religious, Views, Law

John Ashcroft (2006). “Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice”, p.113, Hachette UK

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As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

Abdolkarim Soroush

Islamic, Aggravation, Identity

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Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

Isaac Mizrahi

Choices, Television, American Food

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I think we should appreciate ethnicity and diversity, and appreciate the uniqueness of all people, but I don't think we should be ethnocentric. These things are not ultimate.

LeCrae

Thinking, People, Appreciate

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The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life.

Allyson Schwartz

Loving Life, Race, Egypt

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It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

George Lopez

Black And White, People, Together

"George Lopez enters the talk show wars". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. March 30, 2009.

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Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Jim Harrison

Sex, Writing, Wish

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It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.

Nelson Mandela

Diversity, Democracy, Culture

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.109, Pan Macmillan

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I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.

Betty White

Thinking, Laughing, Relax

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American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

Carrie Underwood

Idols, Age, Gender

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After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

People, Age, Zorro

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Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Country, War, Moving

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In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Leadership, Eye, Race

"High court to hear key school race cases" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. June 5, 2006.

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