#ethnicity

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

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

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

#capitalism #color #considered #else #ethnicity

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught. ↗

— Erin Gruwell

#labels #perspective #pride #race #freedom

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

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

#ethnicity #good #indifferent #not-my-turn-to-die #religion

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

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

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#american #american idol #ethnicity #everything #gender