Race is a fairly non scientific description. We essentially let people self identify their race. But ethnic group simply means a collection of people having something of cultural significance in common. Jews certainly have that.
What would be your argument that Jews do not constitute an ethnic group.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass