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“This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If we were to eliminate all colors in his garden,then what would be a rainbow with only one color? Or a garden with only one kind of flower? Why would the Creator create a vast assortment of plants, ethnicities, and animals, if only one beast or seed is to dominate all of existence?”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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“We need to eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, religion, and nationality. Every human requires food and water to survive and every human has a heart that bleeds, loves, and grieves.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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“The world citizen is a small leaf on the giant tree of life. They do not see a difference between the branch they were born on and the remaining branches on the tree, because they understand well that we are are all connected to the same roots. The world citizen sees each section of the world as part of their arm, leg, eyes, and heart. They do not class, contain or separate themselves or their identity by ethnicity or religion -- because they see their existence as a small part of a greater whole. When asked about their religion, the world citizen simply replies: 'My heart.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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“Ethnicity is liquor of the apes (Naskaristana 2522) Every nonwhite person speaks two or more languages, every nonwhite person juggles two or more cultures, every nonwhite person comes from a soil seeped in philosophy and poetry - now tell me, how exactly are the whites superior! Here I'm not establishing the nonwhites as superior, all I'm pointing out is this - in sciences white people are not the pioneers, in philosophy white people are not the pioneers, in art and astrophysics whiteys are not the pioneers, in medicine and mathematics whiteys are not the pioneers, then how on earth did you come by this insane inkling that white people are the super race, how many bottles did you have, or did you bang your head against the rocks while making fire! Fact of the matter is, dumbness doesn't have ethnicity, but fanaticism of ethnicity only establishes that ethnicity as the dumbest bunch of apes on earth, whether it's neonazis, zionists, islamists or sanatanuts.”

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Book:Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
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“9 Billion Shades of Brown (Black History Month Sonnet) Nothing is black and white in this world, everything is a shade of black, even white is just a pale shade of black, or we should say, brown - nothing is black, nothing is white, everything is a shade of brown, everyone is a shade of brown. Ethnicity is a commodity of fear, prejudice is a commodity of power - Mother Africa is the cradle of humanity, Global South is the cradle of civilization. Everything that white people have ever written consists of only 1 percent of the human condition, yet you confuse it as the entire human condition. There is no black history month, the entire human race calendar is black.”

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Book:Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
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“The neo-cons, or some of them, decided that they would back Clinton when he belatedly decided for Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic, and this even though they loathed Clinton, because the battle against religious and ethnic dictatorship in the Balkans took precedence. This, by the way, was partly a battle to save Muslims from Catholic and Christian Orthodox killers. That impressed me. The neo-cons also took the view, quite early on, that coexistence with Saddam Hussein was impossible as well as undesirable. They were dead right about that. They had furthermore been thinking about the menace of jihadism when most people were half-asleep. And then I have to say that I was rather struck by the way that the Weekly Standard and its associated voices took the decision to get rid of Trent Lott earlier this year, thus removing an embarrassment as well as a disgrace from the political scene. And their arguments were on points of principle, not 'perception.' I liked their ruthlessness here, and their seriousness, at a time when much of the liberal Left is not even seriously wrong, but frivolously wrong, and babbles without any sense of responsibility. (I mean, have you read their sub-Brechtian stuff on Halliburton....?) And revolution from above, in some states and cases, is—as I wrote in my book A Long Short War—often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.”

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Book:Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
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“Aster had come to trust the diviner implicitly. The lessons had burned such an indelible mark in her memory that she could recount, with the utmost ease, all twenty-three creatures that had fallen from the grace of God, and the nine ethnic groups that the Almighty had meant to be slaves. She accepted that one shall not kill one's neighbor, unless it is to encourage others to do the same; one shall not steal, unless one can prove oneself lord-designate; and one shall show deference to an elder, unless it is decidedly evident that the elder is from one of the nine fallen ethnic groups.”

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Book:The God Who Begat a Jackal: A Novel
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“He [Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, 1795], coined the term Caucasian on the basis of a favorite skull of his that had come into his possession from the Caucasus Mountains of Russia. To him, the skull was the most beautiful of all that he owned. So he gave the group to which he belonged, the Europeans, the same name as the region that had produced it. That is how people now identified as white got the scientific-sounding yet random name Caucasian.”

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Book:Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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“Those words they throw at you and which stick onto you -- I know they hurt. But remember, you are beautiful for who you are. Not for your ethnicity or your relationship to others. Don't play into a part society creates for you or feel as if you need to be a certain way to be loved and accepted. You are not their object, their doll, or their magical dream. You are not their yellow fantasy.”

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Book:Not Your Yellow Fantasy: Deconstructing the Legacy of Asian Fetishization
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“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.”

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Book:Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia
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“Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at it, all nationalism contains elements of both, but Scotland is very far on the civic end of the spectrum. That is partly because nobody has ever been stupid enough to say that Scotland is an ethnicity in a genetic sense. A kingdom of Scotland existed long before anybody talked of a Scottish people. So that is one thing we have been spared.”

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Author:Neal Ascherson
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“Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class.”

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Book:The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994
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“It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to be playing ordinary, adorably flawed professionals just like you and me with their brilliant minority friends (with vastly less camera time) who are surgeons. But it's not just ethnicity. That narrow vision also extends to, say, things like women leads. Women leads have to be good-hearted and nice, with a Slutty Best Friend. The main character can't be slutty. Because that's not attractively normal etc”

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Author:Sandra Tsing Loh
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“Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane, driven by nationalism, religion, ethnicity or ideology. They do not fear the United States for its diplomatic skills or the number of automobiles and software programs it produces. They respect only the firepower of our tanks, planes and helicopter gunships.”

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Book:A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan
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“In the history of this country [USA], the reason we have never developed a social democratic base, the way they have in Europe - we're the only Western country without some kind of universal health care. There's a reason, and it is because corporate interests have divided the American people by race and ethnicity, the Irish from the blacks, the Germans from the German Jews.”

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Author:Joan Walsh Anglund
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“No matter the location of the build site, the religion, gender or ethnicity of the homeowners or volunteers, there is a sense of authentic community that links Habitat partners. It's exactly this kind of shared commitment that has sustained Habitat for three decades, and, similarly, it will be a renewed commitment that's necessary to meet the challenges ahead. I don't have to remind you that the need for decent housing is immense. Our tenacity is equally vast.”

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Author:Jonathan Reckford
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