Top 1200 Ethnic Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.

I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.

I always put my identity at the forefront of my music.

Don't put the whole of your identity into the smallness of a situation.

If we haven't become the Liberty Party of an undoubted future, let us take this fact: the great totalitarian regimes have died. The Soviet Union broke up along ethnic lines, as we always thought it would. The Chinese - am I wrong? - are becoming a commercial civilization.

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy.

Reagan was an exceedingly likeable guy, just a heck of a nice fellow, despite his politics. He was funny and loved a good joke, the dirtier, I'm afraid the more ethnic, the better. I don't think he brought very much to the presidency, except charisma and success.

There is nothing more opposed to equality than identity.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

Our Bodies, Ourselves is the bible for women's health--It has served as a way for women, across ethnic, racial, religious, and geographical boundaries, to start examining their health from a perspective that will bring about change.

Growing up, I had a bit of an identity crisis.

Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

When you speak to potential black and ethnic coaches who want to go into the game, one aspect that they always speak about are role models. They would like to see representation, more at a higher level. And any part I can play in that I am delighted to do.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an ethnic tension that did not explode, a dissident who was not silenced, a human spirit that was not crushed.

My body became aligned with my identity, and it was profound.

My desire to be an actor or a model precedes my identity.

Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society.

And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.

Various "wars on drugs" throughout history have killed millions, enslaved millions more, destroyed families, are usually just thin pretenses for mass incarceration, mass surveillance, ethnic cleansing, population control.

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.'

I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.

We concentrate too much on ethnic diversity and not enough on class. It's dead important to represent loads of different cultures. But what the BBC doesn't do enough of is thinking about getting people from more working-class backgrounds.

The Russian Federation's practice of instant citizenship, whereby Russian passports are distributed willy-nilly to ethnic Russians abroad so they can be 'protected' in their current homeland, is unacceptable. Passports are travel documents, not a tool to justify aggression.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

I can tell you what I believe, particularly about Mexican-Americans: they are a community that has contributed greatly to this country, they work extremely hard, they've been very productive citizens of our country, and I think that's true of many ethnic groups in this country.

Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.

Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.

We don't use the trademark to market anything. It's our identity.

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

I do not want to waste time in proving my identity to people.

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.

I think I've established my own identity here at Brandeis.

All bands are in danger of losing their identity. Constantly.

I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.

I am that person that struggled with my identity my whole life.

Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.

A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors.

If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity.

I am the leader of one country which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, surrounded by seven neighbours, a country in which live eight ethnic minorities.

I think that often my work is obscured by my gender identity.