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Quotes About Ethnicity

I don't know why, anytime you see a car filled with people, it's either Middle Easterners or Mexicans. It's one of those two. Even for short trips, my dad would be like, 'Okay, everybody in the car.'
~ Maz Jobrani
I was incredibly angry to see Mr. Trump question a judge's motives because of his ethnicity.
~ Bill Flores
You may baptize as long as you want, but the Jew remains a Jew, the Chinese a Chinese and the Negro a Negro.
~ Julius Streicher
My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.
~ Cecily McMillan
I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to ... turn my back on a great and noble heritage.
~ Felix Frankfurter
Ethiopians have gods with snub noses and black hair, Thracians gods with gray eyes and red hair
~ Steven Weinberg
I have never worked on race and ethnicity as a kind of subcategory; I have always worked on the whole social formation which is racialised
~ Stuart Hall
While great hair and teeth are a good start to a political career, an ability to pretend at least half convincingly that you have an affinity to all key ethnic groups in your state is a definite plus.
~ Stuart Rojstaczer
So what do you do if you are imprisoned for your race and ethnicity? The message is, Those are your crimes.
~ Sun Yung Shin
Attacking another American's qualifications solely based on his ethnic background is bigotry. Plain and simple.
~ Ana Navarro
A culture that places so little value on black and brown lives that it is willing to let human beings disappear beneath the waves, or set themselves on fire in detention centers, will also be willing to let the countries where black and brown people live disappear beneath the waves, or desiccate in the arid heat.
~ Naomi Klein
Goddard's staff kept careful records of the tests, which he analyzed back in Vineland. The results stunned him: A huge proportion of the immigrants tested as feebleminded. Goddard broke down the results by ethnic group: 79 percent of Italians were feebleminded, 83 percent of Jews, 87 percent of Russians.
~ Carl Zimmer
Creating an identity for ourselves is based upon self-discovery and not upon biological and ethnic inheritance. This first stage of self-discovery is revolution.
~ Caroline Myss
Kim sÄ… ci ludzie?- powtarza Herc Szemec. - To ?ydki. Å»ydki, które coÅ› knujÄ…. Wiem, ?e to tautologia.
~ Chabon Michael
Eric was usually pretty Anglo-Saxon about sex.
~ Charlaine Harris
Being a Filipino actor in Hollywood, the most frustrating part of landing roles in Hollywood is definitely the limited roles available and the lack of diversity.
~ Dante Basco
As a boy, I felt ashamed of being Mexican. I'd say I was Hawaiian.
~ Juan Felipe Herrera
It's really tough to be a Mexican on 'Breaking Bad.'
~ Steven Michael Quezada
I'm not Mexican, and I'm not Central American. I'm from California.
~ Cary Fukunaga
On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.
~ Tyler Posey
I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
~ Oscar Isaac
There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The list goes on and on.
~ Kat Graham
At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'
~ Jason Mantzoukas
I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.
~ Wentworth Miller