Ethnic Quotes
298 Ethnic quotes by 254 unique authors
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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and…
— Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face…
— Trevor Phillips
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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…
— John Shelton Reed
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As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play…
— Daniel Sunjata
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I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present…
— Jonathan Sacks
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We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation…
— Jonathan Sacks
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In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore…
— Forest Whitaker
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Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's…
— Terry Eagleton
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The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their…
— Terry Eagleton
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People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of…
— Aloe Blacc
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the…
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
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I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.
— Casey Abrams
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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…
— Stanley Crouch
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Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.
— Gustavo Dudamel
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When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response is a horse-laugh.…
— Jeff Greenfield
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Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes…
— Peter Guber
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In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious…
— Darrell Issa
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In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability…
— Stephen Daldry
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We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here…
— Edward F Edinger
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My neighborhood was a great neighborhood; it was filled with all sorts of ethnic groups and things. So I grew up thinking I was a…
— Chita Rivera
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If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or racial groups or…
— Pema Chodron
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We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who were…
— George Soros
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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…
— Walter Cronkite
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We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If we had in…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.
— Rod Blagojevich
Who Wrote These Ethnic Quotes
254 authors contributed a total of 298 Ethnic Quotes, led by these top contributors: