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Quotes About Minority

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.
~ Dalia Mogahed
It is hard if you have got family and kids and you have to leave them on Christmas Day to go and train but listen, we are a small minority of lucky players. We have obviously worked hard for this, but we are lucky enough to have the ability to play in the Premier League.
~ Mark Noble
We feel that the Republican platform presents the best opportunity for the success of minority families. All minority groups seek the same opportunities in the United States that the settlers from Europe did when they came over.
~ Bill Flores
I have worked with President Trump for two years and he is not a racist. He is a compassionate man whose policies have focused on the minority community.
~ Mercedes Schlapp
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
As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.
~ Dan Webster
History shows that attacks on general freedoms often begin with an attack on the freedom of a minority. It teaches us that we should never allow a government to divide and rule. An attack on one is an attack on all.
~ George Monbiot
a majority when united by a common interest or passion cannot be restrained from oppressing the minority, what remedy can be found in a republican Government, where the majority must ultimately decide?
~ Robert A. Goldwin
What is a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
~ Robert Altman
What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
~ Robert Altman
First, forget politics as you've come to see it as electoral contests between Democrats and Republicans. Think power. The underlying contest is between a small minority who have gained power over the system and the vast majority who have little or none.
~ Robert B. Reich
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.
~ Robert Brault
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as bad luck.
~ Robert Heinlein
An indictment of the asphyxiating myth of the model minority, The Family Chao is a compelling murder mystery, a love story, a legal drama, a meditation on internalized racism… a must-read
~ Lan Samantha Chang
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.
~ Freeman Dyson
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.
~ Vladimir Lenin
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
~ Bella Abzug
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us, of proving that popular govenment is not an absurdity. We must settle this question now, whether in a free government the minority have the right to break up the govenment whenever they choose. If we fail it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Also mostly lost in the turmoil over whether minority admissions violate traditional standards of merit is the impressive evidence that grades and test scores do not predict success in the practice of law or medicine.
~ Derrick Bell
The Liberals were in a minority, but were strongly backed by the Irish Nationalists, even though they were themselves divided between pro- and anti-Parnellite factions. Gladstone's last government included three subsequent Liberal prime ministers – Rosebery, Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H.H. Asquith, but his closest associate was John Morley, the Irish Chief Secretary, who was later to write his biography in three extensive volumes.
~ Dick Leonard
You think that the mental anguish you are experiencing is a permanent condition, but for the vast majority of people it is only a temporary state. (But what if I'm special? What if I'm in the minority?)
~ Jenny Offill
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
~ Jesse Jackson
The undiscussed truth is that Planned Parenthood still operates in line with these ideas today. Planned Parenthood clinics—and abortion clinics generally—are frequently located in inner city areas where they can prey on poor minority women, and receive public funds for doing so.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson