Minorities Quotes - Page 33

• The relative lack of power of certain minority groups and the fear they're feeling in the wake of Donald Trump's election, I think, is something we really need to take a look at, because, while I don't think Trump wants to target any particular minority group, I understand their fear, because he spent many months stoking it.

  Megyn Kelly

  Thinking, Feelings, Months

  "Megyn Kelly On Trump And The Media: 'We're In A Dangerous Phase Right Now'". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. December 7, 2016.

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• The problem of insufficient security was, until quite recently, a matter of a minority; now it is becoming very quickly a majority matter. That is a major change.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Majority, Matter, Becoming

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• As long as being a stranger and surrounded by strangers was seen as a temporary irritant, a smallest departure from the binding rules of conduct by a member of a minority, was taken for a major crime justifying deportation.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Taken, Long, Departure

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• In my life I do look up to actors, at my age I ask myself, who else is playing interesting parts at my age which is very difficult for a female actor. On top of it, being a minority, having come from China makes it harder.

  Joan Chen

  Interesting, Age, Female

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• The Democratic vote consists of minorities and educated whites.

  David Remnick

  Vote, Democratic, Educated

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The minority vote is growing, which is part of the alarm of so many Republicans and why Trump constantly whipped up their alarm with his racist statements.

  David Remnick

  Alarms, Racist, Growing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The thematic core of X-Men is tolerance. It's that for those of us who are different in any way - in a big way - whether it's you're a minority, you're a woman, you're a Muslim, you are suppressed or marginalized; it can go the whole spectrum, but even if you are shy or you feel like an outsider, and X-Men are outsiders.

  Lauren Shuler Donner

  Men, Tolerance, Shy

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I don't think political reform is likely to succeed. [Senators Tom] Udall and [Ron] Wyden, on the intelligence committee, have been sounding the alarm, but they are a minority.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Political, Succeed

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• Progressives are the majority; we won the popular vote by a long shot and Donald Trump and the congressional Republicans representing mainly rich old white men are a minority. If we stand up together and use the effective strategies and tactics the tea party used, we believe we can stop them.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Party, Believe, Men

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• Sunni are the majority of the [Syria], 60 to 65 percent. They've been ruled by [Bashar] Assad, who represents a minority Alawite element, which is about 12, 13 percent. And because of the choices Assad made, it's very difficult to see how you resolve this without buy-in from the Sunni world.

  John F. Kerry

  Choices, Majority, Elements

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• Historically during the years of the White minority regimes, the State, the national Government held this land in trust for these communities. We said, but no, why should we do that ( return the land to the communities). We didn't say return the land to particular traditional leaders, but to the communities.

  Thabo Mbeki

  White, Government, Years

  Source: www.gov.za

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• I always thought the women of my age group got short shrift because the women's liberation movement came slightly after. You look at the yearbooks and you see the future homemakers of America - hurray for that - but you also see them in the engineers club. You see minority kids as student body presidents at a time when everyone was supposed to be terminally racist. Yearbooks are genres; they're also folk art, folk documentation.

  Kevin Starr

  Art, Kids, Yearbook

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Can you imagine in 2016 there is a discussion about #OscarsSoWhite? Is it a novelty we've just discovered that the whole production machine is dominated by only one type of human being, excluding women, excluding gays, excluding minorities? This is not new.

  Raoul Peck

  Gay, Novelty, Machines

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've been winning with 70 percent of the vote, and if you look at my district, you know it's a majority Christian district, and yet we've still been winning with high margins, so I don't feel like I've had any disadvantages for being a minority.

  Keith Ellison

  Christian, Winning, Majority

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• The dangerous glorification of the nation state, and the baiting of minorities that goes along with it, releases an anti-democratic energy.

  Martin Schulz

  Energy, Release, States

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The share of wealth held by the minority is much greater than the share held by the majority. We have to draw our own conclusions from that and it has to change.

  Martin Schulz

  Majority, Wealth, Share

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Writing, Temptation, Majority

  "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Viet Thanh Nguyen 'Never Stopped Being a Refugee'". Interview with Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2017.

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• Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority writers are expected to.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Talking, Majority, Assuming

  "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Viet Thanh Nguyen 'Never Stopped Being a Refugee'". Interview with Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2017.

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• A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

  Jordan Peele

  Thinking, Color, People

  ""Get Out' Is the Horror Flick America Needs Right Now". Interview With Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. February 24, 2017.

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• We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

  Jordan Peele

  Voice, White, Hollywood

  "'Get Out' Is the Horror Flick America Needs Right Now". Interview With Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. February 24, 2017.

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• If [the Conservatives] lose, we say, "Okay, we gotta change. We gotta improve, come back and win the next election." They [leftists] don't. When they lose and even when they win, because they know that they're in a numerical minority. But that numerical minority is a vast majority of pop culture and education environments. And so they just bully their way.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, Bully, Majority

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could change the world. And number two, we believed that another world was possible. And once that belief took hold of some critical mass, a tiny minority nonetheless, but a critical mass of people, then the world did change.

  Bill Ayers

  Thinking, Two, Numbers

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• Mrs. Clinton's policies, which are an echo of Barack Obama's policies, are gonna continue to wreak havoc and damage on America's minorities.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Echoes, America, Damage

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In the case of my country, Guatemala, 65% of the inhabitants are indigenous. The constitution speaks of protection for the indigenous. Who authorized a minority to protect an immense majority? It is not only political, cultural and economic marginalization, it is an attempt against the dignity of the majority of the population.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Country, Political, Majority

  Source: www.indians.org

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• If you are a minority, it is important that you have legal ways to defend yourself in the society in which you live.

  Shelby Steele

  Important, Way, Ifs

  "Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can’t Win Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 27, 2008.

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