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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    “No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.”
    —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

    “The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    “Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden.”
    —Chinese proverb.