Ethnic Quotes

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.

I intend to be the president of all citizens of Macedonia, regardless of their ethnic or religious background, regardless of their political standing. I shall not allow ethnic hatred and intolerance to undermine Macedonia's stability.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.

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

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.