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Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society. -- Gary Locke
Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive. -- Tommy Lee Jones
Ethnic conflict is a line between religion and stupidity. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses. -- Yasmine Bleeth
Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today. -- John Shattuck
Race, Religion, Ethnic Pride, Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you have never met -- Doug Stanhope
Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality. -- Anna Quindlen
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs. -- Ishmael Reed
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game. -- Branch Rickey
I think the world should be represented on television and for the longest its been limited. Ethnic stories specifically need variety in content period... -- Aeriel Miranda
Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain. -- Dinaw Mengestu
It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions is the word you are struggling hypocritially to avoid. -- Richard Dawkins
Ethnic music the world 'round is quite fascinating," "There are an enormous number of similarities there, and it's the similarities that are so appealing. ... I haven't even scratched the surface of that kind of thing. -- John Renbourn
French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in the UK may well prove to be a major asset in this effort. -- David Graddol
Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense. -- Dalai Lama
I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman. -- Chloe Bennet
We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping. -- Bennie Thompson
Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane dishes into a culinary masterpiece. -- Marcus Samuelsson
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. -- Wilhelm Wundt
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
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. -- Ellen Ochoa
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
There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. -- John Clayton
Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans. -- Bernie Sanders
What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.' But they can't say that, or people would realize they're crazy. -- Ann Coulter
In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences. -- F. Sionil Jose
When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion. -- Walter Kaufmann
During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades. -- Xi Jinping
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 Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here. -- John Shelton Reed
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 thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography. -- Peter Guber
Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness. -- Christopher Hitchens
I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories. -- John Henrik Clarke
These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?' -- Giada De Laurentiis
We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too. -- Roger Ebert
Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, take up this historic baton and continue working hard for the great renewal of the Chinese nation, so that we will stand rock firm in the family of nations and make fresh and greater contribution to mankind. -- Xi Jinping
People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale. -- Mikhail Kalashnikov
My features are completely ethnic. -- Naomi Campbell
Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict. -- Paul Wolfowitz
I love hats, shoes, outfits, handbags, and ethnic jewelery. -- Soundarya
I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit. -- Bill Laswell
There a great ethnic cuisine available to you in Chicago. -- Jose Garces
Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging. -- Emma Bonino
Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city. -- Bryan Q. Miller
Every ethnic group thinks they are the chosen ones. "¦ -- Harvey Pekar
You can't call yourself a university and exclude whole ethnic groups. -- Bobby Seale
There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere. -- Sidney Poitier
I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments. -- Anton Yelchin
America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history. -- Vladimir Putin
Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background. -- Bennie Thompson
I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes. -- Al Madrigal
I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide. -- John Major
I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot. -- William J. Clinton
Mosul stands rally at a sort of juncture of sectarian and ethnic differences. -- Patrick Cockburn
She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture. -- Arundhati Roy
I don't do politics, I don't do religion, I don't do ethnic jokes. -- Bill Engvall
By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group. -- Raphael Lemkin
If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all. -- Edith Konecky
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled. -- Pankaj Mishra
Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups. -- Grace Napolitano
I usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate. -- Mark Salling
There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group. -- Edward Abbey
It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists. -- William Gibson
A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography. -- William Saroyan
Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity. -- John Shelton Reed
This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination. -- Jalal Talabani
There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people. -- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. -- Darren Aronofsky
Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix. -- Gustavo Dudamel
Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants. -- Stephen Ambrose
My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity. -- Arthur Ashe
I don't believe that human ethnic groups are equal, and I believe that's fairly easy to prove. -- Jim Goad
In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background -- Mario Lopez
In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background. -- Mario Lopez
Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns. -- Stephen Kinzer
Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...] -- Terry Pratchett
I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state. -- Pierre Trudeau
If you had to eat another human to survive, do you think they'd taste like their ethnic background? -- Daniel Tosh
I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. -- George Michael
Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one. -- Bashar al-Assad
We're a spoiled, lazy culture, full of ethnic pride that has to have a parade for every nationality. -- Greg Giraldo
We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies. -- Rod Blagojevich
Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white. -- Christian Smith
I'd...bet enthusiasm for 'ethnic cleansing' will wane if only sticks and rocks are available for the warring parties. -- Bill Hicks
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence. -- John Clayton
I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. -- Aslan Maskhadov
There's very few shows that truly reflect specific ethnic experiences, and when they come and come right, they're a hit. -- Aeriel Miranda
No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow. -- Thomas Sowell
We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform. -- Chen Shui-bian
Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere. -- Bashar al-Assad
People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic. -- Janice Dickinson
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. -- Michael Ignatieff
My work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic separations to directly connect to the heart, mind, and emotion with people. -- Lily Yeh
It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food. -- Poppy Z. Brite
Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making. -- Vera Nazarian
I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features. -- Freida Pinto
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
Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same. -- David Novak
African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers. -- Cliff Stearns
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries. -- Audre Lorde
I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine. -- Larry Fitzgerald
The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value. -- Stanley Crouch
It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election. -- Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos
People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us. -- Jose Serrano
The Crimea is not a disputed territory. Unlike the case of Georgia and South Ossetia, there has been no ethnic conflict there. -- Vladimir Putin
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
We have a man [Donald Trump] who judges people based on their performance regardless of your gender, race, your ethnic or religious background. -- Chris Christie
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
Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority. -- Ruth Benedict
Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses. -- Thomas Sowell
My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical, ideological. -- Chris Abani
Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic. -- Mark Foley
Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and ethnic hatred. -- Claude Gueant

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