Minorities Quotes - Page 5

• In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security, he was very often in the minority.

  Dick Cheney

  Years, United States, Matter

  Dick Cheney's Remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 17, 2004.

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• If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?

  Ann Coulter

  Mexican Border, Borders, Literature

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.132, Crown Forum

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• But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Thinking, Race, Problem

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.171, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

  Barbara Jordan

  Hard Work, Adversity, People

  "Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk". Book edited Larry Chang and Roderick Terry, p. 117, 2007.

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• What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

  Norman Mailer

  Evil, Groups, Literature

  1966 Cannibals and Christians, 'A Speech AtBerkeley on Vietnam Day'.

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• One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

  James K. Polk

  Rights, Majority, Constitution

  Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 04, 1845.

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• Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

  James K. Polk

  Shields, Constitution, Oppression

  Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 04, 1845.

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• It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Majority Rule, Political, Politics

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• The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Art, People, Support

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• Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

  Joanna Russ

  Art, Growth, Doe

  Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.129, University of Texas Press

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• Most Americans, in their heart, are liberal and progressive. It's just a small minority of people who hate, they hate, they exist in the politics of hate, they don't believe two consenting adults should have the right to be in love and share their lives together and be legally protected by the state.

  Michael Moore

  Hate, Believe, Heart

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• Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

  John F. Kennedy

  Melting, Pot, Cases

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• The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Real, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912”

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• Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

  Lysander Spooner

  Taken, Justice, Majority

  Henry Bool, Lysander Spooner, Edwin C. Walker (1972). “Individualist anarchist pamphlets”

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• Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.

  Lysander Spooner

  Passion, Men, Justice

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.

  Louis C. K.

  Majority, Looks

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• We must overcome...all forms of racism. The problem of intolerance should be dealt with as a whole: every time a minority is persecuted and marginalized...the good of the whole society is in danger.

  Pope Francis

  Racism, Overcoming, Problem

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

  Lord Acton

  Play, People, Redemption

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.36, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.

  James F. Cooper

  Country, Effort, Majority

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• 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.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Darkness, Want, Like You

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.

  Sherman Alexie

  Strong, Thinking, Men

  "Redeemers". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2003.

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• Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.

  Bernie Sanders

  Senior, People, Special

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

  Lysander Spooner

  Rights, Majority, Please

  Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”, p.8

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• When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Peace, Children, Differences

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• Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.

  Emma Goldman

  Determination, Intelligent, Reality

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.43, 谷月社

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