Minorities Quotes - Page 4

• When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  People, Use, Term

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• South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.

  Thabo Mbeki

  White, Criminals, Example

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• I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

  Ben Nighthorse Campbell

  Believe, Defense, Constitution

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• Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

  Diane Watson

  Halloween, Rights, Majority

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• Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

  Diane Watson

  Retirement, Couple, Doe

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• In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more.
  
  This is the tyranny of the minority.

  Peter Fenn

  Years, Lasts, Firsts

  "The tyranny of the minority" by Peter Fenn, www.politico.com. March 19, 2009.

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• I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation

  Strom Thurmond

  Appreciate, Black, Development

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• I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed, gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

  Barney Frank

  Gay, Majority, Left Hand

  Interview with Claudia Dreifus, Times Magazine, February 4, 1996.

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• At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

  Adam Schiff

  Uc Berkeley, Texas, Ucla

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• I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.

  Bryan Singer

  Motivational, Kids, Numbers

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• The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.

  Rene Cassin

  Country, Men, League

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• Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Religious, Attitude, Important

  Timothy Garton Ash (2012). “Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name”, p.124, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

  Andrew Greeley

  Real, Thinking, Political

  "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

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• There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

  Pete du Pont

  Leadership, Party, Rights

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• Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Pride, Gay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

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• The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.

  Joe Slovo

  Southern, Preparation, Commencement

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• I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.

  William Labov

  America, Community, Research

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• We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.

  Diane Watson

  Children, School, Cities

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• Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

  Susan Sontag

  Two, Creative, Culture

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.177, Macmillan

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• Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.

  Marvin Olasky

  Opportunity, Needs, Quota

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• People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.

  Jimmy Wales

  People, Community, Care

  "Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds". Slashdot Interview, slashdot.org. July 28, 2004.

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• Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

  David Herbert Donald

  Firsts, Vote, Kind

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• In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Today, Facts, Homeowners

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• The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.

  William H. Gray III

  School, America, Argument

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• Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

  Karel Reisz

  Views, Tickets, Film

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