Latino Quotes - Page 9

• Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.

  Grace Napolitano

  Jobs, Groups, Injured

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• Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Mean, America, Racism

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Easter, Color, People

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• The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Running, Country

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.237, Canongate Books

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• As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

  Erik Estrada

  Growing Up, Hot Headed, Trying

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• I don't want to be considered 'the Latino rapper.

  Big Pun

  Rapper, Want

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• As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.

  Rosie Perez

  Sorry, Latin, Office

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• The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment

  Ednita Nazario

  Believe, Looks, Facts

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• Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?

  Raquel Cepeda

  White, America, Black

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• Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.

  Eva Longoria

  Jobs, Issues, Immigration

  "Eva Longoria: There'll be 'no empty chairs' in my DNC speech" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. November 02, 2015.

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• Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.

  Sandra Bullock

  Orange, Long, African American

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• I'm passionate about mobilizing young Latinos to get to the polls, so I'm involved with Voto Latino. Latinos are a vital but underrepresented force in this country.

  Ana Ortiz

  Country, Passionate, Polls

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• When we were working on immigration reform and there was a young Latino man, young immigration activist here who, in the Roosevelt Room, refused to shake my hand.He made a point of saying, "I can't shake your hand; you're deporting too many people." And I just said to him, "Young man, I'm glad that you feel so passionately about this issue, but you're with the president right now in the White House. You've got to think about what's going to be most effective in getting what you need, what you're trying to accomplish. Because this may not be your best strategy."

  Barack Obama

  Men, Thinking, White

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• As Latinos, you want [people] to come to America - not necessarily Latinos, but [anyone who wants] to come here for a better life. That's kind of how this country was founded and the history of this country.

  George Lopez

  Country, America, People

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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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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• 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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• The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Fighting, Want, Common

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• An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California and from Florida to Alaska - anywhere where African Americans, Latinos, Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans live and comprise a majority of the population. Collectively, these Americans represent the fastest growing segment of the population in the United States. They are also the groups most at risk from environmental problems.

  Robert D Bullard

  New York, Native American, Alaska

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• Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

  Lisa Bonet

  Black, Prison, Concentration

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

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• As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.

  Daniel Sunjata

  Thinking, Light, Color

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• I don't know whether the number of any particular Latino group has made or will make any particular difference in the issues that I am concerned with.

  Charles Rangel

  Differences, Numbers, Issues

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• Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade.

  Cynthia Tucker

  Children, Black, Poor

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• They just think I'm a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I'm Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino.

  James Roday

  Thinking, White, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Air, Differences, Comedian

  "Gabriel Iglesias: Funny, 'Hot And Fluffy'". "Tell Me More" with Viviana Hurtado, www.npr.org. June 28, 2012.

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