Minorities Quotes - Page 3

• Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Mother, Father, Kids

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• Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

  Rose Bird

  Majority, Limits, Mainstream

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• All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Historical, Records

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Political, Groups, Prejudice

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• And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

  Margaret Spellings

  Respect, Children, School

  "Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.

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• I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.

  Lynn Swann

  Thinking, Abuse, Form

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• I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.

  Emma Bonino

  Responsibility, Support, Groups

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• The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that.

  Emma Bonino

  Independence, Movement, Speed

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• As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

  Abraham Robinson

  Views, Ideas, May

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• The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

  Glenn Beck

  America, Majority, Doe

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• Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Black, Groups, Hispanic

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• If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?

  Cher

  Country, Black, Vote

  "Cher Begs Voters Not to Choose Bush" by Deborah Wilker, abcnews.go.com.

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• The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Real, Intelligent, World

  Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), December 31, 2000.

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• The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

  Will Durant

  Political, Acting, Triumph

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

  Abba Eban

  Embodiment, Might, Reminders

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• I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.

  Peter Gabriel

  Thinking, Choices, Creative

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• If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, People, Want

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• All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Patriotic, Equality

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Stars, Loss

  Telegram to Robert and Ethel Kennedy, 13 June 1962

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• Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Race, Diversity

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

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• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  Barbra Streisand

  Exercise, Hype, Ties

  Barbra Streisand's Letter to Democrats, www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2001.

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• When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

  Clarence Thomas

  Real, School, People

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• What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

  Walter Lippmann

  Hymns, Majority, Purpose

  Walter Lippmann (2003). “Men of Destiny (Ppr)”, p.56, Transaction Publishers

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• It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.

  Charles Tupper

  Taken, Rights, Catholic

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• In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

  Walter Lippmann

  Party, Power, Should Have

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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