Minorities Quotes
Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.
Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It's made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a curriculum that chases particularly women and minorities away.
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.
And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.
If you are a minority, it is important that you have legal ways to defend yourself in the society in which you live.
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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.
Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world
But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.
To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.
You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.
Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.
It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.
The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.
I wanted to do something for the minority Muslims living in the West, especially in the UK, to bring up their morale a bit. They need to be proud of their religion
Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them.
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be.
When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.
When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects.
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.
Democracy is for infidels. A real Muslim is not a democrat because he doesn't care about the opinions of majorities and minorities don't interest him. He is only interested in what Islam says.
In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.
Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority.
Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.
Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
The Democratic Party has formed a perfect union with the mainstream media to scare Republicans, to say that they're gonna be called racists or sexists or homophobic if they reach out to minorities.
We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.
In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.
