Minority Quotes · Page 6

Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.

— Magic Johnson

When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal.

— Chinese Proverbs

“But what good is the popular opinion, if the lot of us just process like minions?”

— Criss Jami

“There are many of us now. Enough to be called a people in ourselves and not merely a mistake.”

— N.K. Jemisin

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

— Carol Kane

Personally, I'm not into 'Star Trek' or physics or comic books, but I know I might be in the minority.

— Simon Helberg

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

— Jane Fonda

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

— Henrik Ibsen

It's thought that about 96% of us have visual imagery, and there's a very tiny minority in the population, some of whom…

— Siri Hustvedt

I'm unequivocal about my belief in the rights of our marginalized communities, including our trans community, because I'm a minority myself.

— Humza Yousaf

“It was a reign of minority, when the strongest had the best right, and when acts of usurpation were frequent amongst those…

— Walter Scott

For American philo-Semites, the Jewish experience wasn't just one minority experience among many, but a signal and elevated case.

— Ross Douthat

Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he came to establish will…

— Edward Norman

For Obama, there was just a lot of enthusiasm in the minority communities to get out and vote. Everybody felt like their…

— Malcolm Jenkins

For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia…

— Richard Engel

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there…

— Jack Germond

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the…

— Noam Chomsky

'Educate, don't hate.' That's my motto. The reason why there's so much pushback against diversity and against minority communities is because people…

— Rain Dove

I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would…

— Zac Goldsmith

Despite allegations by liberal advocacy groups that voter suppression tactics by the right hindered minority voting, blacks represented 13 percent of the…

— Elizabeth Flock

One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is…

— Kathleen Wynne

But very early in life I became part of the majority culture and now don't think of myself as a minority. Yet…

— Richard Rodriguez

I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

At the start of the 21st century, Britain is caught in a confusing riptide of anxiety. Of course racism still exists, but…

— Munira Mirza

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

— Mathias Dopfner

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

— Ralph Ellison

I grew up in a lower-middle-class environment, usually the lone minority among my classmates.

— Reggie Fils-Aime

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

— Takashi Murakami

India is a land of minorities. Everyone belongs to some minority.

— Prashant Bhushan

To be involved in the subculture of punk rock puts you in a minority.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

We need to afford people from minority groups and marginalized communities the chance to inhabit spaces they're often held out of because…

— Patti Harrison

When I took on the role of Kamal Hadley it was a question of - how do I depict a racist who…

— Paterson Joseph

The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If you're a minority party that doesn't control any branch of government, you're more likely to be ignored.

— Jennifer Palmieri

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may…

— Jennifer Granholm

I have worked with President Trump for two years and he is not a racist. He is a compassionate man whose policies…

— Mercedes Schlapp

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

— Vivienne Westwood

Any time anyone from a minority community makes advances in a world that wasn't necessarily built for them, it feels like a…

— Naomi Ackie

The roots of Silicon Valley are full of stories of immigrants and minority groups who experienced bigotry and made it anyway. Why…

— Sarah Lacy

When the game is played by such a high percentage of black and ethnic minority players and we're looking at the percentage…

— Chris Hughton