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:
“The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness.... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)