Minorities Quotes · Page 3

We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people

— Hillary Clinton

Religious minorities (including Jews) will have to wear special insignia in Iraq

— Amir Taheri

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

— Tim Scott

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

— Shahin Najafi

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

— Evan Esar

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.

— Antony Sher

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

— Bill Gates

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

— Tom Gjelten

The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in…

— Aldo Leopold

God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.

— William Friedkin

Race is still somewhat of a taboo in comedy. But if you're a minority, then you can make fun of your own…

— Emo Philips

The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners.

— Bill Dedman

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

— Leo Rosten

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

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

— Lewis Baltz

As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being…

— Anonymous

If you are a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are…

— Margaret Cho

Man is the being, among whom only a small minority of the elite ones, find the Greatness of Glorious God, from the…

— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could…

— Bill Ayers

Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader…

— Eboo Patel

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 interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's…

— Jesse Jackson

“There are always those who aspire to deprive minorities of their equality and civil rights. They NEVER sleep – they wait for…

— Christina Engela

Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new…

— Ludwig von Mises

Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although…

— Charlie Chaplin

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons…

— Walter Lippmann

It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Use their tactics if you feel strongly enough. Make a nuisance of yourself. Make an official complaint. Take it to a tribunal.…

— Pat Condell

All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority…

— Susan Blackmore

If you take a walk around Ouagadougou and make a list of the mansions you see, you will note that they belong…

— Thomas Sankara

Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in…

— Ernie Pyle

Democracy doesn't automatically safeguard women and minorities.

— Anand Giridharadas

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

— Henry David Thoreau

A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.

— Leo Baeck

For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

— Aldo Leopold

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

— Jodi Picoult

The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't use the word minority because there is nothing minor about me.

— Piri Thomas

It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.

— H. L. Mencken