Ethnicity Quotes

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

— Carrie Underwood

Necessity is the ethnicity of truth.

— Kedar Joshi

I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am.

— Christina Aguilera

No one should live in fear because of their ethnicity or faith.

— Young Kim

I don't agree with registering people based on ethnicity or religion.

— John F. Kelly

“criminals were all derived from the same ethnicity – scumbag”

— L.H. Thomson

I love doing a show that makes no mention of ethnicity.

— Al Madrigal

I love people of all ethnicities, as long as they're not ugly.

— Daniel Tosh

I'm going to say yes, I reckon we'll have the first BME (black or minority ethnicity) prime minister.

— James Cleverly

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

— Anonymous

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

— Jeb Bush

I am a very particular and peculiar ethnicity. Southern European, Italians - they never fit in models.

— Riccardo Sabatini

When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'

— Malese Jow

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

— Michelle Obama

“A rainbow looks good because the colours demonstrate restrain. Otherwise it would be an ugly blob.”

— Arindam Mukherjee

Whatever ethnicity you are, yes, absolutely you have to be proud of who you are man. I am really really proud to…

— Jimmy O. Yang

I feel like a lot of the portrayals of, in particular, younger minority ethnic characters on television, a lot of their dialogue,…

— Corey Reynolds

What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for…

— Maxine Greene

True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender,…

— Desmond Tutu

I believe the future will reflect different body types, ethnicities, cultures and sexual orientations. I've been working with a lot of young…

— Nelly Furtado

“Scientists found that there are exactly as many skin pigment colors to the various races of this world as there are different…

— Anonymous

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot…

— Thomas Sowell

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as…

— Christopher Dodd

“Nearly two decades later, others would raise this question, would talk about books as mirrors and windows, and Ed Lim, tired by…

— Celeste Ng

“My mom and dad refused to believe that people who had grown up together in peace and friendship, had gone to the…

— Savo Heleta

When you fight something like cancer, you not dealing with a person that looks at where you come from or what's your…

— Eric Berry

You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they…

— John Shelton Reed

I've been demonized as a racist and an extremist. Now, no matter what I say, I mean, I've served in the military…

— Matt Shea

In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%)…

— Philip Gourevitch

For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from…

— Jeffrey Rosen

It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about…

— Richard Rodriguez

Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all…

— Anonymous

God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and…

— Billy Graham

“Actual class struggles apart, one of the aesthetic ways you could prove that there was a class system in America was by…

— Christopher Hitchens

“This has been the century of strangers, brown, yellow and white. This has been the century of the great immigrant experiment. It…

— Zadie Smith

We started an organization that's the only sub-organization of the MacArthur Foundation and we are called the Macarturos. Usually when I win…

— Sandra Cisneros

“The neo-cons, or some of them, decided that they would back Clinton when he belatedly decided for Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“One German-American friend of mine, an architectural historian my own age, can be counted on to excoriate Woodrow Wilson after he has…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The truth is, there is good and bad in everybody, in every nation, in every race, and in every religion. To hear…

— Suzy Kassem