#ethnicity

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

The state does not oppose the freedom of people to express their particular cultural attachments, but nor does it nurture such expression—rather [...] it responds with 'benign neglect' [....] The members of ethnic and national groups are protected against discrimination and prejudice, and they are free to maintain whatever part of their ethnic heritage or identity they wish, consistent with the rights of others. But their efforts are purely private, and it is not the place of public agencies to attach legal identities or disabilities to cultural membership or ethnic identity. This separation of state and ethnicity precludes any legal or governmental recognition of ethnic groups, or any use of ethnic criteria in the distribution of rights, resources, and duties. ↗

— Will Kymlicka

#discrimination #ethnicity #individuals #liberalism #liberties

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

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics. ↗

— Preston Manning

#characteristics #ethnicity #gender #into #language

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

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#ages #ethnicity #gave #i #instantly

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same. ↗

— Aberjhani

#color #diversity #ethnic-cultures #ethnic-groups #ethnicity

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

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

#american #as far as #chance #circumstances #deserves

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