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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Necessity is the ethnicity of truth.

  Kedar Joshi

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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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• 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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• All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Integrity, Voice, Race

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Few things are more annoying than too many of any one ethnicity in the same room.

  Dov Davidoff

  Rooms, Annoying

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Dec 18, 2011

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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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• Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

  Aziz Ansari

  People, Great Work, Ifs

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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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• 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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• I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look.

  Sherman Alexie

  People, House, Community

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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 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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• If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the 'right' one—and, in many cases, all others will be sent to hell. Similarly, a nationalist believes his or her nation is better or more advanced—and a racist believes that an inherent difference between each race make his or her ethnicity superior. All of these ideologies spawn the hate, philosophical disagreements, and prejudices that have been the catalysts for various atrocious acts throughout history.

  David G. McAfee

  Religious, Hate, Philosophical

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Feb 17, 2015

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  The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Humble, Essence, Ideas

  "Condoleezza Rice outshines Paul Ryan at the Republican convention" by Ana Marie Cox, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2012.

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• What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

  Chinua Achebe

  Country, People, Different

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