Latino Quotes - Page 9

• And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

  Newt Gingrich

  Native American, Thinking, Color

  "Newt Gingrich, Howard Dean Talk Race, Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2010.

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• We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say, 'Every single one of them wasn't just the best Latino for the job, but the best person for the job.'

  Charlie Gonzalez

  Jobs, Justice, President

  "Charles Gonzalez DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

  Salma Hayek

  Hollywood, Stories, World

  Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. June 22, 2010.

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• Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet.

  Ronald Reagan

  Crow, Republican, Knows

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• I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it.

  Gloria Reuben

  Country, Talking, Years

  "Women Around the World Want a Clean Energy Future" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.

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• After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.

  Gabrielle Union

  Queens, Couple, Fighting

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

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• Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

  Gabrielle Union

  Men, Race, White Man

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• Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

  Juan Williams

  Gun, Cities, Violence

  "The Combustible Mix of Race & Guns". www.realclearpolitics.com. March 27, 2013.

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• There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

  Edward James Olmos

  African American, Asian, Way

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• On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing ourselves. There is as much diversity and uniqueness within the Latino culture as there is in any other kind of American culture.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Diversity, Culture, Levels

  "Interview: Benjamin Bratt and Leon Ichaso Talk Piñero". Interview with Ed Gonzalez, www.slantmagazine.com. December 21, 2001.

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• The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of African-Americans, as well as Latinos and other disadvantaged minorities.

  Andre Carson

  Party, Oil, African American

  "Democratic Rep: Tea Party Would Love To See Black People ‘Hanging On A Tree’" By Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2011.

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• When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos - no matter what the parent's income or education level.

  Karen Lewis

  Children, Thinking, White

  "Lewis Points Finger At ‘Rich White People’ For School Problems". chicago.cbslocal.com. June 19, 2013.

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• The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.

  Edward Abbey

  Military, War, People

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

  Daddy Yankee

  Pride, Careers, Community

  "CFL Chats with Daddy Yankee". Interview with Krystyna Chávez, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 29, 2013.

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• The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.

  Daddy Yankee

  Giving, Community, Republic

  "CFL Chats with Daddy Yankee". Interview with Krystyna Chávez, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 29, 2013.

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• In restaurants across America we see Latino workers in the kitchen who are being paid substandard wages. The saddest thing to me is that if we think about these workers, these are the people with the least access to good food. Yet they're often suffering from the highest rates of obesity and diet-related illnesses.

  Bryant Terry

  Thinking, People, Kitchen

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• Now Mitt is not a perfect candidate. He has a number of problems. It's hard for him, for blue collar families like mine to identify with him. It's hard for economic conservatives to identify with him. He needs to do more to reach out to Latinos.

  George Pataki

  Blue, Numbers, Perfect

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• It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.

  Romeo Santos

  Kids, Community, United States

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• Black people are just constantly immature in their thinking, undisciplined, and we suffer as a people. This is not about race in the sense that black people got to get something better than whites or Latinos or Asians. This is just basically that we keep complaining about what we don't have and what we can't do, and then, when we get in positions to do stuff, we fight amongst ourselves like savages.

  KRS-One

  Fighting, Thinking, Race

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• When I say hip-hoppers, I mean black, white, Asian, Latino, Chicano, everybody. Everybody. Hip-hop has united all races. Hip-hop has formed a platform for all people, religions, and occupations to meet on something. We all have a platform to meet on now, due to hip-hop. That, to me, is beyond music. That is just a brilliant, brilliant thing.

  KRS-One

  Mean, White, Race

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• I think there are a lot of opportunities in the Americas that matter deeply to 45 million Latinos in this country, and I would hope to be able to work to maybe elevate the profile of the Americas in our discussion about American global leadership.

  Tim Kaine

  Country, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You always wonder whether the attacks on my capabilities came from an honest evaluation of my accomplishments or from stereotypical presumptions that we, people of color, just can't do it, for some reason. This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Color, Accomplishment, People

  Source: www.eldiariony.com

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• And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

  Tom Hayden

  Community, Black, Organized Labor

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on gang violence, I was a community organizer in Newark, New Jersey, and when I spoke to the Black Caucus, congressional and state, I realized they were going all the way for Hillary [Clinton] and so was the Latino caucus in Sacramento and I asked myself this question: "Do I really want to cast my vote against these people who have been central to my life and to the soul of the country?" And so I went with them. Period.

  Tom Hayden

  Country, Book, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I've been in a couple with different races like Latino, white, Middle Eastern.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Couple, Race, White

  "Sanaa Lathan tries 'Something New'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. August 4, 2010.

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