Ethnicity Quotes - Page 3

• Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of their full human rights because of their colour, race, ethnicity, descent or national origin.

  Irene Khan

  Rights, Race, Racism

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• Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism that creates the foundation for sapping democracy of any political substance and moral vitality. The predominance of the disimagination machine in American society, along with its machinery of social death and historical amnesia, seeps into in all aspects of life, suggesting that young people and others marginalized by class, race and ethnicity have been abandoned.

  Henry Giroux

  Race, Class, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Every religion you are, every ethnicity you are, every sex you are, if you're gay or straight. You should be considered as equal as anybody else. That's super-simple, but apparently we have to still march for it.

  Bianca Balti

  Sex, Gay, Simple

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.

  Malcolm X

  Healing, America, Knives

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• Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Science, Color, Class

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• It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to be playing ordinary, adorably flawed professionals just like you and me with their brilliant minority friends (with vastly less camera time) who are surgeons. But it's not just ethnicity. That narrow vision also extends to, say, things like women leads. Women leads have to be good-hearted and nice, with a Slutty Best Friend. The main character can't be slutty. Because that's not attractively normal etc

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Nice, Character, White

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• When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.

  Dennis Prager

  Religious, Wings, Judaism

  "Dennis Prager: Americanism Is The Best Hope". Interview with Dave Gordon, www.breitbart.com. June 3, 2012.

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• True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.

  Desmond Tutu

  Commitment, Rights, Justice

  "Divesting From Injustice" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2010.

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• I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.

  Danny Pino

  Pride, Opportunity, Roots

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• Be wary of feeling as through there is not enough room at the table. Oftentimes a female Chinese-American might feel as through she is in competition with another Chinese-American woman writer of the same generation. A writer friend of mine calls it the "There Can Only Be One ..." syndrome. This isn't "Survivor." The more good writers, of all walks of life and all ethnicities and persuasions, the better.

  ZZ Packer

  Writing, Feelings, Competition

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• As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

  David Mitchell

  Long, Interesting, Uniforms

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• Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

  Stevie Wonder

  Religious, Democracy, Disability

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 electio". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• Sometimes we exclude things in ourselves in order to be like everybody else around us-our ethnicity, our social backgrounds, our ideas. What kind of world is it that will not allow me to be myself, and is it really good for me to be there? What part of me will die a slow death if I stay?

  Joan D. Chittister

  Being Yourself, Order, Ideas

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• Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens.

  Traian Basescu

  Confused, Citizens, Wonder

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• Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.

  Wole Soyinka

  Hands, People, Suffering

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• Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines of race, ethnicity, and religious belief or non-belief.

  Jesse Ventura

  Religious, Ideas, Race

  Jesse Ventura (2008). “Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!: From the Minnesota Governor's Mansion to the Baja Outback : Reflections and Revisionings”, Skyhorse Publishing Company Incorporated

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• Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation. Few writers of any ethnicity are destined to be remembered in the mainstream of literary history; I believe that Kenny's contributions as a poet are among those few. He writes from the center, as our Elders would say.

  Wendy Rose

  Believe, Writing, Generations

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• Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness, making him indistinguishable from the multitudes that form what is commonly referred to as 'the masses,' but it simultaneously assigns him a group identity based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, etc., to highlight differences within the masses.

  Mark Levin

  Race, Two, Differences

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• Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. The Tories take Jewish London for granted. I will not.

  Ken Livingstone

  People

  "Ken Livingstone tells Jewish Chronicle of his contrition over leaked remarks" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.

  Ann Voskamp

  Home, Heart, Adversity

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• Everyone should be proud of who they are and where they come from because America is a big melting pot of diverse ethnicities. It's great to be part of this wonderful country.

  Rima Fakih

  Country, America, Melting

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• America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

  Joseph Nye

  America, Shared Values, Values

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• My Virgen de Guadalupe is not the mother of God. She is God. She is a face for a god without a face, an indigena for a god without ethnicity, a female deity for a god who is genderless, but I also understand that for her to approach me, for me to finally open the door and accept her, she had to be a woman like me.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mother, Doors, Faces

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• Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance all.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Country, Race, Color

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• Hip-hop in a lot of ways is like sports; when you go to a sports game, you see people from all ages, all ethnicities, all social classes, they're all there enjoying the game. Hip-hop has been one of the only forms of music that has provided that kind of atmosphere.

  LeCrae

  Sports, Games, Class

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