Top Ethnicity Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Ethnicity quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Philip Gourevitch
In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%) or Twa (1%). The identity cards made it virtually impossible for Hutus to become Tutsis, and permitted the Belgians to perfect the administration of an apartheid system rooted in the myth of Tutsi superiority… Whatever Hutu and Tutsi identity may have stood for in the pre-colonial state no longer mattered; the Belgians had made ‘ethnicity’ the defining feature of Rwandan existence.
- Philip Gourevitch
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Image of Jalal Talabani
I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions ... to vote 'yes' to the constitution
- Jalal Talabani
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Image of Raquel Welch
Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didnt really like the idea of my name being Raquel.
- Raquel Welch
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Image of Immanuel Wallerstein
I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism.
- Immanuel Wallerstein
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Image of Mat Johnson
For some reason, people always assign high cheekbones to some ethnicity, but apparently by their regards, everybody on earth has high cheekbones. So I don't know if that matters.
- Mat Johnson
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Image of J. J. Watt
Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there.
- J. J. Watt
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Image of Aziz Ansari
Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.
- Aziz Ansari
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Image of Trevor Noah
When I first came to the U.S. - because I do accents and I've traveled the world. I have friends of almost every single ethnicity, and I would mimic them. And when I came to the U.S., I remember one day we're at "The Daily Show." And I mimicked my Chinese friend. And the guys at the show were like, oh, hey, don't ever do that again. That's really racist.
- Trevor Noah
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Image of Georgi Parvanov
I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.
- Georgi Parvanov
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Image of Kedar Joshi
Necessity is the ethnicity of truth.
- Kedar Joshi
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Image of Robert Paul Weston
People of different ethnicities are definitely not of differing species. Biologically speaking, people are people.
- Robert Paul Weston
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Image of Isaac Mizrahi
Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is
- Isaac Mizrahi
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Image of Daniel Tosh
I love people of all ethnicities, as long as they're not ugly.
- Daniel Tosh
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Image of Desmond Tutu
People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.
- Desmond Tutu
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Image of Michelle Obama
Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.
- Michelle Obama
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Image of Barack Obama
The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.
- Barack Obama
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Image of George Carlin
Whereas your blackness, ethnicity, homosexuality is something that might be genetic, I can't touch that, and I have no right.
- George Carlin
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Image of Sherman Alexie
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
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Image of Anne-Marie Slaughter
In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side by side and intermarry for long periods of time until it becomes valuable to exploit the division. And yes, the division's there because you can always revert back to history, you can always inflame it, but it is manipulated for political ends.
- Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Image of Natalie Dormer
There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.
- Natalie Dormer
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Image of Kim Kardashian
They say I look like a different ethnicity, and nobody's been recognizing me.
- Kim Kardashian
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Image of Ken Livingstone
Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. The Tories take Jewish London for granted. I will not.
- Ken Livingstone
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Image of Dov Davidoff
Few things are more annoying than too many of any one ethnicity in the same room.
- Dov Davidoff
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Image of Nelson Mandela
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
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