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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    “Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “Simone Clouseau: We can’t just let him rot in prison.
    Sir Charles: Oh, it takes years for people to rot.”
    —Blake Edwards (b. 1922)