Minorities Quotes - Page 34

• Everyone who chooses to live in Europe must accept the basic values. This includes the rule of law as well as equality of men and women and non-discrimination against religious and other minorities.

  Vera Jourova

  Religious, Men, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We've always had the blame-America crowd. We've always had the hate-America crowd. But we've now had at least two generations of education where this has been indoctrinated into the young skulls full of mush of young people. They've heard how horrible America was back in the days of slavery. They've heard how horrible America treated women. They've heard how horrible every minority group was treated. They've heard how mean-spirited the founders were. They've heard all kinds of literal lies.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Hate, Mean

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The left, if you get them honest, will admit they know they're a minority.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Honest, Knows, Left

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Republican Party among the public is a minority party.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Republican, Republican Party

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [The Republican Party] for example, they do run the House of Representatives, they're a majority there, and it's the House that is essentially sending the government into shutdown and maybe default. But they won the majority of seats there because of various kinds of chicanery. They got a minority of the votes, but a majority of the seats, and they're using them to press forward an agenda which is extremely harmful to the public.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Party, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that, in some senses, could be thought of as traditionally American - the idea that everybody's equal, that the rights of women and men should be the same, that there should be no discrimination on religious or sexual orientation, that democracy and rule of law and due process are the ways in which society should govern themselves and minorities should be cared for.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Religious, Men, Rights

  "From Refugees To Politics, Mohsin Hamid Writes The Change He Wants To See". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. March 9, 2018.

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• When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they look to be heroes in some other way. So young men in America of, let's say, Muslim background, only a tiny, tiny minority - so small as to be almost zero - are likely to ever commit terrorist acts.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Zero, Hero, Men

  "From Refugees To Politics, Mohsin Hamid Writes The Change He Wants To See". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. March 9, 2018.

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• I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But it isn't necessarily a small minority of the wealthy elite in the city of Lahore. It can often be and I often do meet at literary festivals students who've ridden a bus 12 hours from a very small town just to hear some of their favorite writers come and speak.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Cities, Often Is, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.

  Barbara Crampton

  Character, Thinking, Males

  Source: collider.com

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• The Vietnam War was taking place, which was raising all sorts of questions in the United States, and it was forcing Asian-Americans to stop thinking of themselves as model minorities and to identify themselves more with world revolution, which was very important in my development.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  War, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's nuts that we've reached a situation where representing female characters - let alone minorities - is considered "social responsibility" and not, you know, depicting half the world's population. I often feel like the gaming audience is so much more diverse than the characters represented in the games that they play.

  Neil Druckmann

  Character, Responsibility, Nuts

  Source: za.ign.com

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• Trump is not presidential: this is not normal, it cannot be treated as normal. We have to fight with our last breath to make sure that the vision for the country that this racist white nationalist Bannon has cannot be achieved in this country. We are a country that, whether he likes it or not, is about to become the first nation in the world that is majority minorities.

  Reza Aslan

  Country, Fighting, White

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• A part of being black in America and, you know, I presume being any minority, is constantly being told that we're being too aware of race somehow, we're obsessed with it or we're seeing racism where there just isn't racism.

  Jordan Peele

  Race, America, Racism

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's hard to make a living in any of the arts. When most people think of artists, they think of the stars and the celebrities. But that's such a tiny minority of the elites who are able to make those millions of dollars. The reality is that it's very hard for the rest to make a living as an artist. So, you really have to persevere and understand that achieving the sort of success where you're making the big money is like winning the lottery.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Art, Stars, Reality

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I believe the minorities need to have a strategy of survival because needless aggression when you cannot change the situation does not help. Wisdom is more important than saving some cultural symbol.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Believe, Survival, Important

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they shared not only linguistic meanings but also an experience and history. Those communities have progressively split in the twentieth century, and grown more heterogeneous, and writers emerging from minority communities have found themselves addressing audiences closer to their experience and history - a phenomenon derided by conservative white men as identity politics and multiculturalism in the arts.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Art, Men, Identity Politics

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  War, Believe, Winning

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2010). “Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?

  John O. Brennan

  Powerful, Hatred, United States

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• The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate.

  Graydon Carter

  Zines, Leader, Leaving

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• The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

  John Cornyn

  Long, Enemy, Islam

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• A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.

  Sloane Crosley

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

  Junot Diaz

  Artist, Community, Doe

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• I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'

  Will Ferrell

  Book, Wife, House

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• Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.

  William Hague

  Regimes, Isolated

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• Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mean, Mind, Black

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