Minorities Quotes - Page 36

• Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world

  Charles Spurgeon

  Long Ago, Evil, World

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 33: Sermons 1938-2000”, p.745, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• 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.

  Dean Kamen

  Kids, Technology, Curriculum

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. June 9, 2009.

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• There is no reason to believe that the nature of the violent minorities is now greatly different from what it was in the past. What has changed is the will and ability of the majority to react.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Past, Majority

  Eric Hoffer (1977). “In our time”, McNally & Loftin Publishers

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• I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.

  Andres Segovia

  Prayer, Artist, Giving

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• World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.

  Adolf Hitler

  Determination, Numbers, Majority

  Adolf Hitler (1943). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance for a small minority. But this does not mean that anyone is competent, or ought to have power, to select those to whom this freedom is to be reserved.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Doe, Select

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• The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.

  Michael Arrington

  Entrepreneur, Risk, Majority

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• What may be possible for a minority of humankind, albeit at great cost, simply cannot work for the humankind. Our kind of progress depends on lacerating the Earth,on gouging out its riches, on stripping is life-sustaining skin of soil and forest

  Jonathon Porritt

  Progress, Skins, Cost

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• The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.

  John Larroquette

  Majority, Facts, Sides

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• I have a love factor with the minorities.

  John Catsimatidis

  Factors

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• A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

  Richard Lamm

  Law, Might, Gains

  "Two Wands" by Gov. Dick Lamm, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on. You cannot perpetually stay in that place of blame, otherwise it's just a downward spiral.

  David Oyelowo

  Moving, Civilization, Community

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• The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Rights, People, Black

  "Ayaan Hirsi Ali on why Christians should try to convert Muslims". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. May 21, 2010.

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• Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.

  Esai Morales

  Character, Two, Damn

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

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• I was warmly embraced by the Tea Party. They openly seek more minorities.

  Tim Scott

  Party, Tea, Tea Party

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• Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.

  Virginia Postrel

  Blue, Wife, Comedian

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• There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world.

  Martin Jacques

  Religious, Ignorance, Profound

  "Europe's contempt for other cultures can't be sustained" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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• If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

  Martin Jacques

  White, Racism, Burning

  "Sarkozy plays the race card - and our establishment cheers" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2007.

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• There are a host of ethnic minorities in China but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number. History has taught the Han that other groups will and should ultimately be absorbed and assimilated as Han. There is a belief that the Han enjoy a superior and far more advanced culture.

  Martin Jacques

  Numbers, Identity, Groups

  "Identity runs deep in China" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2009.

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• Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?

  Martin Jacques

  Speak English, Leader, Needs

  "Does it matter if we only speak English?" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2006.

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• Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Christian, Religious, Unique

  "Syria: Is the World Waiting for Genocide?" by Ahmed Zewail, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2012.

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• High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

  Jerry Rubin

  School, America, Oppressed

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• Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.

  Douglas Crockford

  Cost, Offers, Features

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.100, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players.

  Agnieszka Holland

  Player, Voice, Giving

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Rich white guys. That's the true minority.

  Cheech Marin

  White, Guy, Rich

  Source: www.pbs.org

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