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American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything. -- Carrie Underwood
Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds. -- Archie Panjabi
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics. -- Preston Manning
Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us. -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender. -- Chinua Achebe
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. -- Thomas Sowell
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Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances. -- Christopher Dodd
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. -- Condoleezza Rice
The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life. -- Allyson Schwartz
America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity. -- Joseph Nye
I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am. -- Christina Aguilera
The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family. -- John Piper
Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. -- Jim Harrison
After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology. -- Monica Crowley
Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is -- Isaac Mizrahi
I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else. -- Miguel
American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. -- Toni Morrison
There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit. -- Marianne Williamson
Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere. -- Robin Morgan
As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself. -- Lauren London
In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country. -- Najib Razak
While we can work hard at improving our health, size is no more in our control than the color of our skin, our ethnicity, or our sexual preference. -- Allison Anders
The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities. -- Susana Martinez
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off. -- David Mitchell
I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored. -- Betty White
It's important to get a translator who will ask the questions in a sensitive and thoughtful way. Knowing the ethnicity issues, the tribal issues in some places...who your translator is can mean a lot. -- Peter Menzel
Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups. -- Aleksander Kwasniewski
We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have. -- Marco Rubio
All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination. -- John Shelby Spong
Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it. -- John Ashcroft
It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how 'down' I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me as a black woman? Unacceptable. -- Issa Rae
I don't feel typecast almost at all, and it could just be because I'm insensitive, but I doubt it. I think most of my roles I've gotten have very little to do with my ethnicity. I don't feel that's a limiting factor for my career. -- Grace Park
There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be. -- ASAP Rocky
Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various alternatives - common around the globe - that postulate natural hierarchies of religion, ethnicity, caste and gender, often enforced by law and strict custom. -- Tyler Cowen
Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses. -- Wole Soyinka
Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Necessity is the ethnicity of truth. -- Kedar Joshi
Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity. -- Paul Fleischman
They say I look like a different ethnicity, and nobody's been recognizing me. -- Kim Kardashian
Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican. -- Henry Giroux
The Klan sees the world in terms of race and ethnicity. So do Liberals -- Ann Coulter
Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds. -- Michelle Obama
I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations. -- Georgi Parvanov
Few things are more annoying than too many of any one ethnicity in the same room. -- Dov Davidoff
Greatness has nothing to do with diversity, skin color, race, ethnicity, nothing to do with it. -- Rush Limbaugh
Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired. -- Aziz Ansari
I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. -- Ken Livingstone
As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it. -- Prefuse 73
The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity. -- Barack Obama
Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color. -- John Charles Polanyi
Whereas your blackness, ethnicity, homosexuality is something that might be genetic, I can't touch that, and I have no right. -- George Carlin
There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality. -- Natalie Dormer
Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is. -- Isaac Mizrahi
When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart. -- Ann Voskamp
... religious insults are considered acceptable even by those who decry slurs about race, ethnicity, and gender. Religious people seem to deserve such treatment. -- William Murchison
Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens. -- Traian Basescu
Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance all. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didnt really like the idea of my name being Raquel. -- Raquel Welch
Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel. -- Raquel Welch
I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech. -- Gene Weingarten
I hope to see more programming, more shows, more actors of mixed ethnicity, more young kids of mixed ethnicity choosing to be in the entertainment industry. -- Charles Michael Davis
Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions. -- Fabiola Gianotti
Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia. -- Eskinder Nega
I think we should appreciate ethnicity and diversity, and appreciate the uniqueness of all people, but I don't think we should be ethnocentric. These things are not ultimate. -- lecrae
No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone. It's a terrible place to live. -- Carrie Brownstein
To the extent residency preferences prevent families and senior citizens from purchasing homes because of race, ethnicity or color, the preferences violate federal law and cannot be tolerated. -- Loretta Lynch
I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute. -- Desmond Tutu
Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years -- FM-2030
For some reason, people always assign high cheekbones to some ethnicity, but apparently by their regards, everybody on earth has high cheekbones. So I don't know if that matters. -- Mat Johnson
Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity. -- Jeremy Lin
The story Grandpa told us helped me realize that people cannot be divided into groups by ethnicity, religion, or any other feature, only into groups of good, bad, and indifferent people. -- Savo Heleta
Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality. -- Stevie Wonder
When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion. -- Dennis Prager
Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color. -- Ana Monnar
As an East Asian looking at America, I find attractive and unattractive features. I like, for example, the free, easy and open relations between people regardless of social status, ethnicity or religion. -- Lee Kuan Yew
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I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with as much dignity and integrity as I can muster. -- Cliff Curtis
Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines of race, ethnicity, and religious belief or non-belief. -- Jesse Ventura
Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing. -- Gwen Moore
Human rights transcend local or ethnocentric values, conferring equal dignity and value on all humanity regardless of sex, ethnicity, sexual preference, or religion. It is in the West that human rights are most respected. -- Ibn Warraq
Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men of various, formerly antagonistic nationalities to live together in peace. -- Ayn Rand
What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the braids of experience woven into the fabric of America's plurality. -- Maxine Greene

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