Minorities Quotes - Page 25

• Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

  Ibn Warraq

  Western Culture, Way, Importance

  Source: ibnwarraq.com

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• It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of freedom and human rights were present at the dawn of Western civilization, as ideals at least, but have gradually come to fruition through supreme acts of self-criticism.

  Ibn Warraq

  Religious, Gay, Civilization

  Source: counterjihadreport.com

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• Part of the problem of being labeled a model minority is that everyone thinks you've made it, but that's far from the case. You can see that in the horrific stories where undocumented workers are trying to get into the country. That's the backlash.

  Arthur Dong

  Country, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.

  Margaret Cho

  Blow, Who I Am, Color

  "'I Want to Talk About How We Can Use Our Anger to Heal': Badass Comic Margaret Cho Dishes". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.alternet.org. September 30, 2015.

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• That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.

  John Adams

  People, Democracy, Desire

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous, and cruel, as any king or senate possessed of uncontrollable power. The majority has eternally, and without one exception, usurped over the rights of the minority.

  John Adams

  Kings, Rights, People

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.10

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• What is a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

  Robert Altman

  Mean, People, Enough

  In 'Guardian' 11 April 1981

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• Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.

  Seth

  People, Benefits, Able

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• The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

  Adam Smith

  Rewards, Fool, Generations

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• The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.

  Tom Allen

  Religious, Rights, Special

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• It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

  John Bright

  People, Catholic, Church

  John Bright (1869). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy: By John Bright. Edited by James E. Thorold Rogers. In 2 Volumes”, p.534

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• I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how to control a certain kind of rage that bubbles up in many Americans, particularly, but not limited to, women, blacks, and other minorities.

  Jayson Blair

  Beautiful, Kind, Painful

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• To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Challenges, Groups, United States

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• I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me.

  Ryan Murphy

  Acceptance, Thinking, People

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• The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel.

  William Taylor

  Hatred, Hussein, Dominance

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• Rather than following through on the proven crime and violence prevention techniques that work, we are back to tough-talking sound byte policies that have been proven to not only fail to reduce crime but actually increase crime, waste taxpayers' money and discriminate against minorities.

  Bobby Scott

  Talking, Prevention, Waste

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• There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.

  Hudson Taylor

  Successful, Support, Majority

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• If wealth is accumulated in the hands of a few, either by a feudal or a stock monopoly, it carries the power also; and a government becomes as certainly aristocratical, by a monopoly of wealth, as by a monopoly of arms. A minority, obtaining a majority of wealth or arms in any mode, becomes the government.

  John Taylor

  Government, Hands, Majority

  John Taylor (2013). “An Inquiry Into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States”, p.255, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• I call government that works the best for people open society, which is basically just another more general term for a democracy that is - you call it maybe a liberal democracy. It's not only majority rule but also respect for minorities and minority opinions and the rule of law. So it's really a sort of institutional democracy.

  George Soros

  Government, Law, Majority Rule

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.

  William Friedkin

  Taken, Gay, People

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. September 20, 2007.

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• I say "on principle" [regarding 'lesbian writer'] because whenever you get one of your minority labels applied, like "Irish Writer," "Canadian Writer," "Woman Writer," "Lesbian Writer" - any of those categories - you always slightly wince because you're afraid that people will think that means you're only going to write about Canada or Ireland, you know.

  Emma Donoghue

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  "‘Room’ Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her “Deeply Feminist” Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, blogs.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• I'm in a real minority as far as having really supportive parents in regards to the arts. They never batted an eye as far as not letting me do that stuff. That's invaluable. I can't believe how unabashedly supportive they were about everything, between music and acting.

  Darren Criss

  Art, Real, Believe

  Interview with Katie Mendelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 7, 2010.

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• In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Religious, Rights, Europe

  "If the EU Doesn't Want Us, They Should Say it Now". Der Spiegel interview, www.nytimes.com. April 16, 2007.

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• We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable principles of our government that isn't followed nearly enough - one of the jobs of the majority is to try and make the minority feel comfortable.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Jobs, Government, Diversity

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• Democracy is for infidels. A real Muslim is not a democrat because he doesn't care about the opinions of majorities and minorities don't interest him. He is only interested in what Islam says.

  Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

  Real, Islam, Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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