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National Identity Quotes

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers.
- Cassandra Clare

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
- Wilfred Burchett

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.
- Ron Chernow

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
- Cyril Cusack

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
- Tom Hooper

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
- Slobodan Milosevic

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.
- Malcolm Wallop

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

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