#ethnicity

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#country #different #ethnicity #fair #gender

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#ethnicity #how #open #outside #sex

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

#confused #ethnicity #europeans #many #million

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#cultivate #ethnicity #every #eyes #individuals

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

#awareness #being #came #consciousness #decline

My mom and dad refused to believe that people who had grown up together in peace and friendship, had gone to the same schools, spoken the same language, and listened to the same music, could overnight be blinded by ethnic hatred and start to brutally kill one another. They simply didn't accept as true that less than two years of a multiparty system and competition for power could poison people's brains so much. ↗

— Savo Heleta

#friendship #peace #politics #power #war

This issue of border security is not about, about ethnicity. I sit there on occasion with 10 or 12 sheriffs from my district, many of which are Democrats with last names like Reyes, with last names like Herrera and Lucio. And they are crying out for border security as well. So again, this is not an issue about being anti-Mexican. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#again #being #border #border security #crying

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

#benefit #ethnicity #hurt #i #know

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

#authority #commit #crimes #criminal #criminal justice

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

#american television #choice #ethnicity #food #i