Minorities Quotes - Page 18

• I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Believe, Gay, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Barbaro, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2010.

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• Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Democracy, Rich, Capitalist

  "Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, vol. 25, 1993.

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• In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.

  Vladimir Lenin

  People, Democracy, Firsts

  "The State and Revolution". Book by Vladimir Lenin, 1917.

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• Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Powerful, Believe, Names

  Robert Green Ingersoll “Heretics and Heresies: From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'”, Library of Alexandria

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• If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is any skill involved, it will accelerate the process of concentrating all the stakes in a few hands. Something like this happens in the market. There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you'll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.

  William Eckhardt

  Running, Winning, Player

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• If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless... For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.

  Margaret Cho

  Integrity, Self Esteem, Gay

  "Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O". TV Special, June 13, 2002.

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• I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.

  Antony Sher

  Gay, White, Three

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• I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Support, Pressure

  Address to joint session of Congress, 12 Mar. 1947

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• The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing minorities and put themselves in their place. Then, also, is produced the phenomenon of agglomeration, of "the full." For that reason, as Spengler has very well observed, it was necessary, just as in our day, to construct enormous buildings. The epoch of the masses is the epoch of the colossal.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Uprising, Empires, Building

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.

  E. M. Forster

  Wall, War, Nerves

  "The Life to Come (and Other Stories)". Book by E. M. Forster, 1972.

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• Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

  Paul Robeson

  May, Causes, Majority

  Paul Robeson (2001). “The Undiscovered Paul Robeson , An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939”, Wiley

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• Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.

  Mario Balotelli

  Stupid, People, Racist

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• I think all minority audiences watch movies with hope. They hope they will see what they want to see. That's why nobody really sees the same movie.

  Arthur Laurents

  Thinking, Watches, Want

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• One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Judging, Catholic, Agnostic

  West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (dissenting opinion) (1943)

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• I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice.

  Illmaculate

  Practice, Cities, Long

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• In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities; people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, perforce. Every man is himself a class.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Class, Cities

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people.

  Peter Drucker

  Class, Giving, People

  "Managing in a Time of Great Change". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1995.

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• The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.

  Peter Drucker

  Years, Organization, Employee

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• A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Majority, Principles

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.220, Library of America

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• The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It is feared that if many H-bombs are used there will be universal death, sudden only for a minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Race, Majority

  Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2003). “Man's Peril, 1954-55”, p.319, Psychology Press

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• In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

  Evan Esar

  Majority, Congress

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• The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.

  Aldo Leopold

  Law, Progress, Opponents

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more subconscious than unconscious, stemming to a very great extent from the tendency of Americans to conform...not to deviate or depart from an orthodox point of view.

  William O. Douglas

  Thinking, Views, Issues

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• Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the existence of the minority's forces? ... Failure to provide full information for informed consent on such an issue represents an ultimate crime.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Issues, Secret

  "The Dosadi Experiment" by Frank Herbert, (p. 246), 1977.

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• Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.

  Philip Wylie

  Powerful, People, Dominion

  "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

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