Minorities Quotes - Page 33

• We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call "free Syrian army." That's what we said.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Army, Majority, Said

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• The other way is the multiverse way. That says that maybe the universe we are in is one of a very large number of universes. The vast majority will not contain life because they have the wrong gravitational constant or the wrong this constant or that constant. But as the number of universes climbs, the odds mount that a tiny minority of universes will have the right fine-tuning.

  Richard Dawkins

  Numbers, Odds, Tuning

  Source: inters.org

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• There's no question that to some extent there are structural disadvantages built in, not just for women but for other minority groups who don't hold power at the executive level either at the company or in the industry. My position is not just "Oh, okay, anyone can overcome those." It's just as we work to get more women and people in minority groups at higher levels in positions of power, what are our options?

  Megyn Kelly

  Position Of Power, People, Levels

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The more you lecture those running the companies on how they need to give more breaks to women or other minority groups and be more open-minded to their work products and perhaps question themselves on a double standard, the more some of those people shut down to your messaging. I'm not saying it's right; I'm just saying you can very easily get labeled as someone who sees everything through a prism of race or gender or what have you. So we have to walk a fine line. It's sad but it's the truth.

  Megyn Kelly

  Running, Race, Giving

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated African-Americans who never gave up our African identity at no time during our stay here.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Struggle, Self, African American

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• If you take away 'Schindler's List' and 'Saving Private Ryan', I like 'Minority Report' a lot.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Saving Private Ryan, Lists, Schindler

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I think that in the American film industry - or even in the European cinema - movies are made not to disturb any kind of class or any kind of minority.

  Gaspar Noe

  Thinking, Class, Cinema

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's an ideological power grab. It's like in this Congressional rebellion they are willing to sink the ship to destroy the captain.

  Jesse Jackson

  Captains, Ships, Rebellion

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• The relative lack of power of certain minority groups and the fear they're feeling in the wake of Donald Trump's election, I think, is something we really need to take a look at, because, 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

  Thinking, Feelings, Months

  "Megyn Kelly On Trump And The Media: 'We're In A Dangerous Phase Right Now'". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. December 7, 2016.

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• The problem of insufficient security was, until quite recently, a matter of a minority; now it is becoming very quickly a majority matter. That is a major change.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Majority, Matter, Becoming

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• As long as being a stranger and surrounded by strangers was seen as a temporary irritant, a smallest departure from the binding rules of conduct by a member of a minority, was taken for a major crime justifying deportation.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Taken, Long, Departure

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• In my life I do look up to actors, at my age I ask myself, who else is playing interesting parts at my age which is very difficult for a female actor. On top of it, being a minority, having come from China makes it harder.

  Joan Chen

  Interesting, Age, Female

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• The Democratic vote consists of minorities and educated whites.

  David Remnick

  Vote, Democratic, Educated

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The minority vote is growing, which is part of the alarm of so many Republicans and why Trump constantly whipped up their alarm with his racist statements.

  David Remnick

  Alarms, Racist, Growing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The thematic core of X-Men is tolerance. It's that for those of us who are different in any way - in a big way - whether it's you're a minority, you're a woman, you're a Muslim, you are suppressed or marginalized; it can go the whole spectrum, but even if you are shy or you feel like an outsider, and X-Men are outsiders.

  Lauren Shuler Donner

  Men, Tolerance, Shy

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Sunni are the majority of the [Syria], 60 to 65 percent. They've been ruled by [Bashar] Assad, who represents a minority Alawite element, which is about 12, 13 percent. And because of the choices Assad made, it's very difficult to see how you resolve this without buy-in from the Sunni world.

  John F. Kerry

  Choices, Majority, Elements

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• Historically during the years of the White minority regimes, the State, the national Government held this land in trust for these communities. We said, but no, why should we do that ( return the land to the communities). We didn't say return the land to particular traditional leaders, but to the communities.

  Thabo Mbeki

  White, Government, Years

  Source: www.gov.za

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• I always thought the women of my age group got short shrift because the women's liberation movement came slightly after. You look at the yearbooks and you see the future homemakers of America - hurray for that - but you also see them in the engineers club. You see minority kids as student body presidents at a time when everyone was supposed to be terminally racist. Yearbooks are genres; they're also folk art, folk documentation.

  Kevin Starr

  Art, Kids, Yearbook

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Can you imagine in 2016 there is a discussion about #OscarsSoWhite? Is it a novelty we've just discovered that the whole production machine is dominated by only one type of human being, excluding women, excluding gays, excluding minorities? This is not new.

  Raoul Peck

  Gay, Novelty, Machines

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've been winning with 70 percent of the vote, and if you look at my district, you know it's a majority Christian district, and yet we've still been winning with high margins, so I don't feel like I've had any disadvantages for being a minority.

  Keith Ellison

  Christian, Winning, Majority

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable principles of our government that isn't followed nearly enough - one of the jobs of the majority is to try and make the minority feel comfortable.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Jobs, Government, Diversity

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• 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.

  Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

  Real, Islam, Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The most important element of democracy, I believe, is the protection of minorities.

  Shahin Najafi

  Believe, Democracy, Important

  "Rapper Najafi on the Fatwa: 'Fundamentalists Can't Take a Joke'". Interview with Georg Bonisch and Tobias Rapp, www.spiegel.de. May 28, 2012.

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• When you cannot achieve a majority, it's a good idea to get rid of minority stakes.

  Mathias Dopfner

  Ideas, Majority, Achieve

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• During the election people from visible minorities stood as candidates on both the left and the right. And only one African woman was elected in a very left-wing constituency in Paris. The French don't seem to be ready to elect people from a visible minority. So maybe this society is not ready to have a woman from a foreign background in this important post. That really surprised us, because we thought we had evolved.

  Patrick Gaubert

  Wings, Paris, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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