People

People

A people is a plurality of persons considered as a whole, as in an ethnic group or nation. Collectively, for example, Jews are known as "the Jewish people", European Gypsies comprise the bulk of "the Romani people", and Palestinian Arabs have started to be called "the Palestinian people".

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Famous quotes containing the word people:

    “What would it mean to live
    in a city whose people were changing
    each other’s despair into hope?—
    You yourself must change it.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    “There’s no people like show people.”
    —Irving Berlin (1888–1989)

    “With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)