Minorities Quotes - Page 15

• Many people are being persuaded that they cannot be considered intelligent or well educated if they insist on the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of the Book. Let me say to you that truth has always lived with the minority; what the majority says at a given moment is usually wrong. The crowd one day cried, "Crucify him," and the whole world united to murder the Son of God, because in their ignorance they knew Him not.

  Alan Redpath

  Bible, Book, Inspiration

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• Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves to accept the validity of Darwinian claims. In fact, the number of biologists who have expressed some degree of disillusionment is practically endless.

  Michael Denton

  Past, Numbers, Firsts

  Michael Denton (2002). “Evolution: A Theory in Crisis”, Adler & Adler Pub

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• And one day our grandkids will ask us, 'What was it like to be a minority?'

  Christy Haubegger

  One Day, Grandkids, Asks

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• I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

  Mindy Kaling

  World, Want, Actresses

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• I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.

  David Oyelowo

  Thinking, People, Black

  "'In my head, this is massive'". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2005.

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• We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Majority, Offensive

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• Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away from the 51 percent that endorsed it on Election Day. Admittedly this is only a small change in the population, from a majority to a minority. Nor do the changers earn grace for their new opinions. They still endorsed the war on Election Day and are still responsible for it.

  Andrew Greeley

  Change, War, Mistake

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• Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Country, War, Moving

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• Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004.

  John Fund

  Florida, Waiting, Voters

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• No American president can support an Egypt that calls into question the historic treaty between Israel and Egypt. And no American president can support an Egypt that doesn't fully recognize women's rights or the rights of religious minorities.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Religious, Rights, Israel

  "Muslim Brotherhood's rise sparks concern democracy will be fleeting in Egypt", www.foxnews.com. July 2, 2012.

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• We had a majority in 1990, 1994, 1996, we lost it every time. You know why? Because we compromised... We don't need a majority. We need an irate, tireless minority. We need people who are just going to stand for the truth.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, People, Insightful

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• [The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government.

  Laurence Tribe

  Rights, Government, People

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• As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

  Antony Sher

  Courage, Gay, White

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• It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.

  Earl Nightingale

  Success, Sports, Golf

  "How to Change Your Life in 30 Seconds".

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• I bring other constituencies - I also have ties to minority communities. And obviously, to the world of world-class research universities. So I can bring some constituencies that I'm used to working with.

  Donna Shalala

  Class, Ties, Community

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• [O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often... oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country.

  Fisher Ames

  Country, Government, Essence

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• Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.

  James Madison

  Government, Support, President

  Jonathan Elliot, James Madison, United States. Constitutional Convention (1836). “The debates in the several state conventions on the adoption of the Federal Constitution, as recommended by the general convention at Philadelphia in 1787: Together with the Journal of the Federal convention, Luther Martin's letter, Yates's minutes, Congressional opinions, Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of '98-'99, and other illustrations of the Constitution”, p.490

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• . . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also its institutional structures. This has been an important goal of mine, as there have always been a variety of issues - artistic freedom, author's rights, access by minority groups - which have concerned me and even influenced my decision to become a playwright in the first place.

  David Henry Hwang

  Rights, Issues, Goal

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• A lot of people want to keep country music in the minority of people. But it belongs to the world. It's art.

  Ray Price

  Country, Art, People

  "Ray Price dead: Country music legend was 87", www.foxnews.com. December 16, 2013.

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• Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

  Aldo Leopold

  Mountain, Woods, Nine

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.194, Oxford University Press, USA

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• All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

  Ralph Ellison

  Individual, Certain, Novel

  1955 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• Imagine a country where the majority of the population reaps the majority of the benefits for their hard work, creative ingenuity, and collaborative efforts. Imagine a country where corporate losses arent socialized, while gains are captured by an exclusive minority. Imagine a country run as a democracy, from the bottom up, not a plutocracy from the top down. Richard Wolff not only imagines it, but in his compelling, captivating and stunningly reasoned new book, Democracy at Work, he details how we get there from here - and why we absolutely must.

  Nomi Prins

  Running, Country, Book

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• If the proposed ordinance is adopted it will hurt small women- and minority-owned businesses the most, the majority of which are already struggling mightily to do business in this city of higher-than average costs of doing business.

  Randy Hamilton

  Hurt, Struggle, Average

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• The behavior of the minority ... warranted the sergeant at arms being called.

  Jim McCrery

  Arms, Behavior, Sergeants

  "Police called during House meeting" by Steve Turnham, www.cnn.com. July 21, 2003.

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• Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.

  Mark Gatiss

  Childhood, Tvs, Fantasy

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