Nationality Quotes

• I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

  Socrates

  Citizens, World, Goodwill

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• We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Race, Drug

  Campaign address, Brooklyn, New York, November 1, 1940.

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• Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.

  A. C. Cuza

  Creative, Culture, Humans

  "Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art")". Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

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  Our true nationality is mankind.

  H. G. Wells

  Life, Racism, People

  H. G. Wells, Walter Warren Wagar (2004). “The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War”, p.644, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Being proud of your nationality is like congratulating yourself for inheriting money.

  Dov Davidoff

  Proud, Be Proud, Proud Of You

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• Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart.

  Scott Simon

  Heart, Race, Blood

  Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.22, Random House

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• Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.

  Alex Ferguson

  Kindness, Age, Universal

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• We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.

  Louis Riel

  Stories, Inheritance, Youth

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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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• Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Religion, Tests

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

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• The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Religion, Important, Important Things

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2007). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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• A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Thinking, History

  "John Bull's Other Island". Book by George Bernard Shaw (Preface), November 1, 1904.

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• Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

  Marcus Garvey

  Principles, Great Idea, Ideals

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• Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Bullets, Gravity, Centre

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• there are no nationalities in heaven.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Equality, Heaven

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Country, Kids, Cities

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• Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Play, Dignity, Respecting Others

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• Before our race, nationality, or religion, we are all human beings. Let's celebrate our differences and not fight over them.

  Rosie Fellner

  Fighting, Race, Differences

  "Rosie Fellner: Celebrating Kindness and Differences". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• All the nations of the earth must learn to live together in peace. Why be prejudiced against anyone because of their race, nationality, or creed? When there's so many real reasons to hate others.

  Emo Philips

  Real, Hate, Race

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• So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another

  Charles James

  People, Mankind, Wells

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• We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially. [...] It's our common humanity that defines us.

  Naveen Andrews

  Race, Common Humanity, Differences

  "SENSE8: Naveen Andrews Talks Working with the Wachowskis and LOST" by Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2015.

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• I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Different Nationalities, People, Problem

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• In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.

  Tania Bruguera

  Citizens, World, Dignity

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• The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Equality, Would Be, Way

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• If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

  H. H. Asquith

  Strong, Fighting, Men

  Statement to House of Commons: Declaration of War with Germany, August 4, 1914.

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