Minorities Quotes · Page 8

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

— Robert Caro

Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans.

— Edward Kennedy

The majority of Espanyol supporters are polite, but there are always rowdy minorities.

— Gerard Pique

Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.

— Gloria Allred

I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of…

— Fannie Hurst

Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.

— Ernst Kaltenbrunner

The DNC says they want minorities to run for office but when they actually do, we don't get the support that we…

— Mike Espy

The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live…

— Nancy Mairs

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I…

— Lewis Baltz

In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates…

— Jane Harman

The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in…

— Mark Twain

We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that…

— John J. Raskob

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black…

— Pete du Pont

You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the…

— Robert Kirkman

We need to advocate for social justice and reform so that all minorities are protected not only under the law but more…

— Erwin McManus

Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size…

— Paul Blanshard

This country needs room to grow and expand. In all my own newspapers I read frightful tales of the shameful atrocities being…

— Gracie Allen

In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of…

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic…

— Slavoj Žižek

During the election people from visible minorities stood as candidates on both the left and the right. And only one African woman…

— Patrick Gaubert

It's hard to make a living in any of the arts. When most people think of artists, they think of the stars…

— Isabella Rossellini

Barack Obama is telling the banking industry what it can and can't charge and what profit he will accept and what level…

— Rush Limbaugh

A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and…

— Philip Agee

There is also evidence from epidemiological studies that psychotic-like experiences are much more common than has hitherto been thought (with about 10%…

— Richard Bentall

Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes…

— Ray Bradbury

The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented…

— Leo Rosten

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim…

— Tom Allen

All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and…

— Gabrielle Union

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever…

— Todd Tiahrt

“Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the…

— DaShanne Stokes

A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should…

— Louis MacNeice

Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.

— Roger Ebert

The largest bloc of voters now has divorced the Democratic and Republican parties, which are now minority parties and the plurality of…

— Jill Stein

People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.

— Hilary Mantel

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation,…

— Ray Bradbury

And the pressure to clarify what exactly is happening to Christians and other minorities in the Middle East is certain to intensify…

— Tom Gjelten

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

— Andrew Greeley

My comments concerning persons afflicted with AIDS as well as various minority groups have left people wondering if I am a racist,

— John Rocker