Ethnic Quotations | Page 3

I feel like a lot of the portrayals of, in particular, younger minority ethnic characters on television, a lot of their dialogue, a lot of their characteristics, a lot of their personality in a writer's eyes, is kind of propelled through their ethnicity.

He believed in peace negotiations to solve the ethnic problem.

hear the stories of the people fleeing the ethnic cleansing.

You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.

This has only succeeded in buying time against an increasingly dangerous threat. The difficulty in destroying this threat lies in the fact that our efforts will not be enough to overcome the fundamental causes of the phenomenon -- poverty, alienation, disaffection and ethnic hatreds deeply rooted in history,

All middle-income families use carbs to stretch meals, across any ethnic group - whether it's kugel or rice and beans or macaroni and cheese. I remember having pancakes for dinner. But as kids, we thought, 'Breakfast for dinner? This is great.'

And I'm glad that Kosovo is well on the way now to being a functioning democracy where different ethnic groups can live in peace.

The differences were more pronounced at lower levels of smoking, but all of these differences were highly statistically significant. At much higher levels of smoking, these racial and ethnic differences were modest, suggesting some type of saturation level of the carcinogenic effect.

You will hear conflicting reports coming out of (Yugoslavia), all of it designed to get American attention away from the ethnic cleansing.

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

all the witness reports we do receive suggest that there are massacres going on, that people are being eliminated, that there is ethnic cleansing going on.

All of American society will benefit from what we have already done, which is to call attention to negative stereotyping of Indians. One of the things I've learned in the last three months is how insidiously Indian stereotyping has filtered into the general American consciousness. We would never allow stereotyping of other racial or ethnic groups in the way that we allow the stereotypes of Indians.

The Chinese government and the Chinese embassy in France are very concerned about the current situation of the ethnic Chinese in France.

The findings overall are good news for the state -- with a dose of caution. Although all ethnic groups are making educational gains from generation to generation, the low education we find for Mexican Americans is disturbing.

The findings are not at all surprising. This is partly because ethnic boundaries are real in our society and almost every sphere of public life is linked to ethnicity in one way or another.

The company town and ethnic history with so many ethnic groups that lived at Sunrise were really a big influence on Hartville and Guernsey. We had to research the history of the mine and mining town and then do a very intensive survey of the site itself.

The commission is all about identifying and eliminating discrimination and hate-based violence, whether it's religious, racial, gender, sexual orientation or ethnic or cultural bias. Intolerance of any kind is wrong. We'll be working to change policies as well.

The disparities vary so much. It isn't one race or ethnic group that's always worse off.

The mayor has reached out to every community, every ethnic group and every New Yorker.

The main danger is that the constitution ratifies and exacerbates the sectarian divisions within the country. Both the process through which it was done and the content are deepening the divide between Kurds and Shiites on one side and the Sunnis on the other. If the constitution is only approved by only two of the three communities, it will only be a confirmation of Iraq's sectarian and ethnic divisions rather than an attempt to overcome them. This has not advanced the process of reconciliation; it . . . more likely is a step backward.