Minorities Quotes - Page 21

• I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it's their right. What I fear is that this minority may seem to be larger than it truly is. What is strange is that there are still people who believe the world is not a globe.

  Richard Leakey

  Believe, People, Atheism

  Interview, content.time.com. April 11, 1999.

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• There are too many coming from different countries. When we started, foreign players were in the minority. All the best players from Spain, France, Brazil, Argentina are going to England. And Ireland is bound to suffer.

  Kevin Kilbane

  Country, Player, Suffering

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• In real life people fart, in the movies, people don't. Why not? Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say all kinds of things, but the other place is supposed to keep quiet. But maybe our lower colons have something interesting to say. Maybe we should listen to them. Farts are human, more human than a lot of people I know. I think we should bring them out of the water closet and into the parlor.

  Mel Brooks

  Real, Thinking, People

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• This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Passion, Pride, Men

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something strong in common. These are eternal values that cannot be racially classified. This is the way I look at race.

  Frank Sinatra

  Strong, Race, Class

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• There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.

  Yvette Clarke

  Yield, Community, Doubt

  "Stop-and-Frisk Targets Minorities — Creates Culture of Fear in New York" by Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Men, Brave

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.933, Delphi Classics

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• We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public.

  Anais Nin

  Research, Alive, Literature

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• It might be marvelous to be a man - then I could stop worrying about what's fair to women and just cheerfully assume I was superior, and that they had all been born to iron my shirts. Better still, I could be an Irish man - then I would have all the privileges of being male without giving up the right to be wayward, temperamental and an appealing minority.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Giving Up, Men, Iron

  Katharine Whitehorn (1981). “View from a Column”

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• Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Country, Travel, Home

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “The Sympaty of Religions”, p.16

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• We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, People, Failing

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.185, Fordham Univ Press

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• Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.

  George William Curtis

  Progress, Steps, Majority

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• Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.

  Ellen Goodman

  Math, Two, Long

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, on the sanctity of being on time. Which is to say that we On-timers are compulsively, unfashionably prompt, that there are only handfuls of us in any given city and, unfortunately, we never seem to have appointments with each other.

  Ellen Goodman

  Cities, Faces, Tribes

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Giving Up, Ghetto, Self

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• We [on the left] have to be used to being a minority -- a small minority -- for some time to come. The odd thing is that the right, even when it is in power, likes to think of itself as an embattled minority against this elite that somehow runs everything. Whereas the left, even when it has no power at all, likes to imagine it somehow represents the majority of people. These are mirror-image delusions.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Running, Thinking, Mirrors

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• Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

  Ruth Benedict

  Eye, Racism, Advantage

  Ruth Benedict (1945). “Race: science and politics”

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• The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.

  Lord Acton

  Liberty, Tests, Position

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• I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

  Fannie Hurst

  War, Struggle, Men

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• It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Stress, America, Color

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.26, Beacon Press

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• Who are beneficiaries of the Court's protection? Members of various minorities including criminals, atheists, homosexuals, flag burners, illegal immigrants (including terrorists), convicts, and pornographers.

  Pat Buchanan

  Atheist, Religion, Criminals

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• You don't know who the next group is that's unpopular. The Bill of Rights isn't for the prom queen. The bill of rights isn't for the high school quarterback. The Bill of Rights is for the least among us. The Bill of Rights is for minorities. The Bill of Rights is for those who have minority opinions. 

  Rand Paul

  Queens, School, Nsa

  Rand Paul's Speech on the PATRIOT Act and Government Surveillance, www.c-span.org. May 20, 2015.

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• the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Ocean, White, Islands

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• Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Littles, Nasty

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld”, p.158, Random House

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• I think suspense should be like any other color on a writers palette. I suppose Im in the minority but I think its crazy for literary fiction to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.

  Jess Walter

  Crazy, Ghetto, Divorce

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