Minorities Quotes - Page 31

• The diversity of India cannot thrive on facile attempts to create the homogeneous category of "Indian." Nor can it thrive on dubious attempts to gloss over xenophobic provincialism or a highly culpable state-sponsored marginalization of a minority community.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Diversity, Community, Dubious

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Majority Rule, Democracy

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution, including James Madison, he was pretty clear about it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Majority, Way

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• England shouldn't have the real freedom of vote and we shouldn't either. Because as [James Madison] put it, one of the primary goals of government was to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority, to make sure the opulent maintain their rights. The constitutional system was structured to ensure that outcome.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Rights, Government

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often leads to scapegoat-ism: blaming outsiders, such as immigrants, or racial and religious minorities. The phenomenon is behind Brexit and the violence in the political cycles in the US and EU.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Religious, Party, Political

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• As members of a minority, one that was often persecuted, that entrepreneurial perspective was burnished with a sense of "outsider" status - so not only were we committed to finding our own way of achieving success, we also grew up to believe that we'd have to fight to get whatever we wanted.

  Lewis Schiff

  Believe, Fighting, Perspective

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Because my college was a local college, it had a historic role in educating minorities and the tuition increase was viewed as an obstacle in creating more opportunity for minorities. I threw myself info the protests with all my heart. Ultimately, a group of us barricaded ourselves in the school for about 3 weeks so we brought the running of the campus to a halt.

  Lewis Schiff

  Running, Heart, School

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• People who aren't minorities don't know what its like to be one. Of course they'll say, "He must've done something," because they're taught to believe that if you're targeted by the police that you've done something.

  Brandon Marshall

  Believe, People, Police

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I was discouraged when I read that [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell said that Trans-Pacific Partnership was dead, but then I was told he turned around and said, "No, it's not."

  John Kasich

  Leader, Partnership, Discouraged

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• The most fundamental challenge of the anthropocene concerns agency. For those who lived the Enlightenment dream (always a minority but an influential one), agency was taken for granted. There were existential threats to agency (e.g., determinism) but philosophy mobilized to refute these threats (e.g., by defending libertarianism) or to defuse them (e.g., by showing that they were compatible with agency).

  Dale Jamieson

  Dream, Philosophy, Taken

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The Republicans that want to get rid of [Donald] Trump are a minority.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Want, Republican, Trump

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I can say it's true that if I want to understand a certain minority, I need to meet them and get to know them.

  Csanad Szegedi

  Needs, Want, Certain

  Source: www.salon.com

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• When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger society can accept and the minority community can accept.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Religious, Community, Migration

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Practice, Degrees, Way

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Difficult Questions, Roles, Language

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• Certainly here in the U.S., we've had fundamentalist movements that have taken very critical and hostile attitudes toward immigration and the assimilation of immigrants into our society and culture. So these tendencies are fairly universal. The problem is what if they get out of hand and become the dominant factor in a society, which can only lead to the oppression of minorities or even to war with neighboring societies with differing cultures. That's why it seems to me it's important to try to keep these tendencies toward extremism under control.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Attitude, War, Taken

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• Mostly out of step, young people, especially poor minorities and low-income whites, are increasingly inscribed within a machinery of dead knowledge, social relations and values in which there is an attempt to render them voiceless and invisible.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Income, Voiceless

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has been increasingly directed against young people, low-income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, and women.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Low Income, United States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican.

  Henry Giroux

  Race, Ethnicity, Surveillance

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new militarized state young people, especially poor minorities, are viewed as predators, a threat to corporate governance, and are treated as disposable populations.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Age, Population

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

  Henry Giroux

  School, White, Youth

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified by the forces of privatization, financialization, militarization and criminalization, fashioning a new architecture of punishment, massive human suffering and authoritarianism.

  Henry Giroux

  Punishment, Racism, Crow

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The largest bloc of voters now has divorced the Democratic and Republican parties, which are now minority parties and the plurality of voters now are independent. They're looking for something else.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Independent, Voters

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• The Western press has always insisted that India was Pakistan's enemy and vice versa, that the Hindus were against the Muslims and vice versa. They've never said, for instance, that my party has been fighting this attitude ever since we have maintained that religious hostilities are wrong and absurd, that minorities cannot be eliminated from a country, that people of different religions must live together.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Religious, Attitude

  Source: sangam.org

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• We need writers, we need to tell stories that include minority people, and then we won't have this discussion about Oscar so white.

  Pauletta Pearson Washington

  White, People, Needs

  Source: www.theroot.com

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