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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“The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“And so with homesickness in many ways
We sought however crudely to defeat
Our chance of being people newly born.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)