Ethnicity Quotes - Page 4

• America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

  Joseph Nye

  America, Shared Values, Values

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• Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But God help law enforcement officers, air marshals and border agents who try to use those same factors to combat terrorism and protect American lives.

  Michelle Malkin

  White, Race, Government

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• Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men of various, formerly antagonistic nationalities to live together in peace.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Together, United States

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.126, Penguin

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• The Klan sees the world in terms of race and ethnicity. So do Liberals

  Ann Coulter

  Race, World, Term

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right”, p.32, Crown Forum

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• No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy.

  Fred Korematsu

  Race, Religion, Democracy

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• They say I look like a different ethnicity, and nobody's been recognizing me.

  Kim Kardashian

  Different, Looks, Recognizing

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• It's tough to get any movie made, but unless it's a movie about race or culture or ethnicity, it's becoming less and less important who's playing what. You see that on the big screen and the small screen, and I think that's great. That's exciting.

  Will Packer

  Thinking, Race, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• I am a white guy in America with an education, albeit high school, but a pretty good one. Another guy from a different demographic or different ethnicity in America can look at me and say, "You take a lot for granted." Well... okay. I just live in a white male American reality, where I hear you but I don't know if I necessarily read you.

  Henry Rollins

  School, Reality, White

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I'm not a racist. It's really case by case; it's not ethnicity specific. It's just the way I react to things that are different. I think that's normal. Everyone's nervous when they're confronted with things that they don't understand or are different. That's a normal human reaction. It doesn't become racist 'til you say things like, 'Oh, there's a lot of them.'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• Human rights transcend local or ethnocentric values, conferring equal dignity and value on all humanity regardless of sex, ethnicity, sexual preference, or religion. It is in the West that human rights are most respected.

  Ibn Warraq

  Sex, Rights, Humanity

  Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.15, Encounter Books

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• Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

  FM-2030

  Past, Years, Names

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• We absolutely need diversity [in game designers]. And not just diversity of gender, but diversity of cultures, of ethnicity, of sexuality. If we want to reach beyond the audience we have we've got to bring in more players, and to bring in more players we've got to bring in people who might be able to reach those players.

  Brenda Romero

  Player, Games, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who's trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Writing, Gay, Trying

  "In a Galaxy Far, Far Away From Comic Book Bigotry, Black and Queer Heroes Rule". Interview with Miles E. Johnson, www.motherjones.com. December 17, 2015.

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• I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.

  Archie Panjabi

  Years, Hollywood, Actors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should be a discipline, certainly growing from England and France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, and the Native traditions, particularly because those helped form the American canon. Those are our backgrounds. And then we'd be doing it the way it ought to be done. And someday I hope that it will be.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Views, Discipline, Way

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• What people in Burma need is a democratic federal Burma that guarantees autonomy, rights and protection for all, regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion or race.

  Zoya Phan

  Rights, Race, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.

  Sara Paretsky

  Memories, People, Catholic

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Nevada is certainly more representative of what the entire country looks like demographically, so you really are testing how these candidates are doing across ethnicities, across genders, across cultures.

  Lucy Flores

  Country, Culture, Looks

  "Voter Diversity Expected To Play A Role In Nevada's Democratic Caucuses". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

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• There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.

  Natalie Dormer

  Uprising, Long, Matter

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think that a person cannot be criminally or otherwise prosecuted, his or her rights cannot be infringed upon the grounds of nationality, ethnicity or sexual orientation in the modern world. It is absolutely unacceptable. And it is not the case in Russia.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Russia, Rights

  Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

  Michelle Obama

  People, Age, Today

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