#ethnic

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

#background #common #corps #desire #discovery

You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#ask #bloc #either #ethnicity #i

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

#circumstances #come #essence #ethnicity #great

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#cleansing #ethnic #genocide #innocent #innocent people

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

#almighty god #because #been #bound #common

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#crime #ethnic #group #motivated #must

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#citizens #discrimination #ethnic #iraq #iraqi

[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out. ↗

— Courtney Love

#germans #germany #ireland #irish #jews

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

#borders #country #ethnicity #following #groups

Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names. ↗

— Piper Laurie

#ethnic #everyone #had #lana #names