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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a "victim" state, and the most successful ethnic group in the US has likewise acquired victim status.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Military, Successful, Rights

  "The business of death" by Norman Finkelstein, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2000.

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• Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.

  Ruth Benedict

  Racism, Groups, Inferiority

  Ruth Benedict (1945). “Race: science and politics”

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• The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.

  Henry Bonilla

  Cutting, Compassion, Talking

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• I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.

  Arne Glimcher

  Latin, Italian, Men

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

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• Though representatives of many ethnic groups came together in the United States, English became their common language. Apparently, this was a natural choice. One can imagine what would have happened if members of each nation moving to the U.S. had spoken only their own tongues and refused to learn English.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Moving, Choices, Together

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• I can tell you what I believe, particularly about Mexican-Americans: they are a community that has contributed greatly to this country, they work extremely hard, they've been very productive citizens of our country, and I think that's true of many ethnic groups in this country.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  "GOP worries about Donald Trump fallout" by Chris Moody, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2015.

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• The feeling of being an Iraqi unites all ethnic groups within this country. Even the Kurds, who have traditionally pushed for their own state, see the benefits of the current situation. They enjoy an autonomous status in Kurdistan, while at the same time participating in decisions in Baghdad. But if neighboring states were to push for a partition of Iraq, it would be a horrible mistake.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Country, Mistake, Iraq

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• That is the American experiment. An ethnic group arriving on America's shores, to be reviled and hazed, living in squalor, or if they are lucky Squalor Heights, working hard to give their children or grandchildren the opportunity to sh*t on the next group landing on our shores.

  Jon Stewart

  Children, Opportunity, America

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• There are many people who enjoy animal based foods and who have no interest in changing the way they eat. And as you correctly pointed out, animal products are an integral part of some ethnic groups and societies and it would be nearly impossible for them to change thousands of years of traditional eating habits.

  Gary Player

  Animal, Years, People

  Source: blog.vegansa.com

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• I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.

  Mike Posner

  Country, Growing Up, Cities

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• Politics in Bolivia must combine social consciousness with professional competency. In my administration, intellectuals from the upper class can be cabinet ministers or ambassadors, as can members of Indian ethnic groups.

  Evo Morales

  Class, Groups, Bolivia

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