Top 50 Go Ethnic Quotes

#1. I don't divide my reading into demographic categories, any more than I'd divide my friends into groups along ethnic or sexual lines. The thing I look for most is a sense of literary rawness - bareback fiction, if you will.

Christopher Fowler

Go Ethnic Quotes #4726
#2. I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.

Arne Glimcher

Go Ethnic Quotes #7518
#3. I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now they've got some good Mediterranean blood in them.

Alexandra Wentworth

Go Ethnic Quotes #13344
#4. One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.

Sebastian Junger

Go Ethnic Quotes #15632
#5. Be less about protecting any type of identity affiliated to a country or even ethnic background. Be more about the fact that we're here for a short time and Heaven is going to be a rainbow of people, multiculture, every generation.

Max Lucado

Go Ethnic Quotes #21586
#6. I've been marching in every single ethnic nationality parade all throughout the City of New York. We're all Americans first and foremost, but people understand their heritage and it's good to see.

Joe Lhota

Go Ethnic Quotes #34476
#7. I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.

Barack Obama

Go Ethnic Quotes #37626
#8. We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

Steven C. Rockefeller

Go Ethnic Quotes #39549
#9. And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.

Karen Armstrong

Go Ethnic Quotes #43148
#10. Reagan was an exceedingly likeable guy, just a heck of a nice fellow, despite his politics. He was funny and loved a good joke, the dirtier, I'm afraid the more ethnic, the better. I don't think he brought very much to the presidency, except charisma and success.

Walter Cronkite

Go Ethnic Quotes #44465
#11. I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.

Bill Laswell

Go Ethnic Quotes #45349
#12. In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

Samuel P. Huntington

Go Ethnic Quotes #46003
#13. In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.

Niall Ferguson

Go Ethnic Quotes #70035
#14. In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

Barack Obama

Go Ethnic Quotes #75062
#15. You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.

Emir Kusturica

Go Ethnic Quotes #91951
#16. Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.

Sydney J. Harris

Go Ethnic Quotes #93366
#17. Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

Eric Holder

Go Ethnic Quotes #93728
#18. You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.

Satya Bhabha

Go Ethnic Quotes #98133
#19. By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.

Raphael Lemkin

Go Ethnic Quotes #98238
#20. 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.

Hamid Karzai

Go Ethnic Quotes #100000
#21. There a great ethnic cuisine available to you in Chicago.

Jose Garces

Go Ethnic Quotes #108455
#22. The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

Stanley Crouch

Go Ethnic Quotes #110200
#23. If you had to eat another human to survive, do you think they'd taste like their ethnic background?

Daniel Tosh

Go Ethnic Quotes #110822
#24. Down through the ages man's heart has remained unchanged. Whatever the color of his skin, whatever his cultural or ethnic background, he needs the Gospel of Christ.

Billy Graham

Go Ethnic Quotes #110996
#25. We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.

Mahnaz Afkhami

Go Ethnic Quotes #112618
#26. '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.

Christopher Hitchens

Go Ethnic Quotes #118787
#27. No matter what race we are, what ethnic background, sexual orientation, or what views we may have, we are all human. Unfortunately, not all humans see it that way.

Erin Gruwell

Go Ethnic Quotes #126310
#28. Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself.

Robert P. George

Go Ethnic Quotes #136718
#29. I don't always think of myself as ethnic ... my mom is Black, and my dad is White, and we like to call my race"Bi-racial". Everyone at camp is interesting because they just call me Black. -Mackenzie

Tara Michener

Go Ethnic Quotes #142885
#30. Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

David Novak

Go Ethnic Quotes #145267
#31. Herein lies the attractiveness of ethnic agitation: its ease and accessibility. The Other is visible, everyone can recognize and remember his image. One doesn't have to read books, think, discuss: it is enough just to look.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Go Ethnic Quotes #158781
#32. No other ethnic group has even come close to matching the abilities and accomplishments of Jews.

H.W. Charles

Go Ethnic Quotes #163014
#33. The fact of Native existence is that we live modern lives informed by traditional values and contemporary realities and that we wish to live those lives in our terms.

Thomas King

Go Ethnic Quotes #170521
#34. We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.

Fady Joudah

Go Ethnic Quotes #175934
#35. Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.

Gene Wilder

Go Ethnic Quotes #178083
#36. As a rule, if a crime is committed by one group against another ethnic or religious group, it is nearly impossible for the perpetrator to punish itself.

Taner Akcam

Go Ethnic Quotes #181888
#37. If Nepal is to become a new Nepal, she must first become free from ethnic segregation.

Santosh Kalwar

Go Ethnic Quotes #182745
#38. We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

Cesar Chavez

Go Ethnic Quotes #193085
#39. Fortune cookies are an American invention, and we gave it to them. The Chinese were probably like, "Uh, we don't want it." And we were like, "It's now part of your ethnic identity.

Jim Gaffigan

Go Ethnic Quotes #197014
#40. Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

Dalai Lama

Go Ethnic Quotes #198242
#41. He could never go back to that place, it had been sealed off to him for ever, blown to the sky with explosives then flattened to the ground with bulldozers, built over with tarmac, lived on top of by other people.

Selma Dabbagh

Go Ethnic Quotes #388749
#42. Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.

Anthony Bourdain

Go Ethnic Quotes #449049
#43. History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.

Jodi Picoult

Go Ethnic Quotes #528799
#44. People always think of Chinese food as the go-to ethnic food when everything else is closed during the holidays, but Indian is a nice alternative. Plus - Indians? Thanksgiving? Kinda makes sense ...

Erin Gibson

Go Ethnic Quotes #653618
#45. Has anyone ever noticed that when ethnic Australians excel in sport they are heralded "Aussies"; but when something goes wrong they are thrown the "go back to where you came from" line? WAKE UP RACISTS.

Miya Yamanouchi

Go Ethnic Quotes #1128247
#46. To be Catholic was to belong to an ethnic group, not a religion. You didn't really have to believe it, or act like you believed it, to be a Catholic. You just had to show up every week for Mass and go to Catholic school.

Carlene Bauer

Go Ethnic Quotes #1508548
#47. A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

John Kasich

Go Ethnic Quotes #1625637
#48. I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didn't even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds.

James Maslow

Go Ethnic Quotes #1862922
#49. I find L.A. very interesting, partly because I think something new is forming there, but not in a moment of good fellowship as you might think from all this "diversity" claptrap. It's not as if we'll all go down to the Civic Center in our ethnic costumes and dance around.

Richard Rodriguez

Go Ethnic Quotes #1868242
#50. I usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate.

Mark Salling

Go Ethnic Quotes #1870390

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