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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    “Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “Gods always behave like the people who make them.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

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