James Russell Lowell Quotes

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

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.

There may be something in the fact that when I was a little kid I'd been told growing up that we had some degree of native American blood in us, I always found that a point of pride. So, when it came to cowboys and Indians I most certainly did not want to be John Wayne. I wanted to be one of the Indians.

I feel as proud to be Jewish as I feel to be black

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

I'm Colombian and nothing will change that.

There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it.

I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that.

It is important to me that people believe in me as a model, trust in me as a model - which they do in London and New York - which is why sometimes I think I'm an Anglo-Saxon woman at heart.

I am a man by nature and a Frenchman only by accident.

Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. It is a pious and honorable duty .... If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the other is family pride; and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

I want people to see my color and my culture written all over me, because I am proud of the skin I'm in. It is an important part of my identity. What I don't want them to do is mistreat me because of it.

I always wanted my kids to be proud of their heritage.

One time, I went to school, and they asked us all to find out where our roots were. It's goin' around the class, and the kids were going, 'I'm Swedish-German' or 'I'm English-Irish.' They got to me and I said, 'Pure Kentuckian.'

I am proud to be Pinoy and I never forget where I came from.

I've got the fighting Irish, and Puerto Ricans are some of the best fighters in the world. I'm proud of who I am, but it doesn't define me as a person.

Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!

I'm Indian and proudly so.

I have the Mexican blood. I'm proud to be Mexican.