Ability Quote by Deeyah Khan

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

— Samuel P. Huntington

I think it is really important for everybody to have people who can speak your language.

— Timo Werner

It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's…

— Lucy Liu

In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

— Barack Obama

If you're not geographically diverse, it's hard to even speak a language that makes sense to folks in faraway places. That's especially a problem…

— Steve Bullock

A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis…

— Thomas Davis

It's important that if one opposes discriminatory speech, one opposes all kinds. That is that one decides on a principle that it will include…

— Judith Butler

There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit information, but…

— Noam Chomsky

French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in…

— David Graddol

Every language will have different nuances. But language cannot be the basis for discrimination or exclusion.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena…

— Salman Rushdie