Minorities Quotes · Page 9

A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary.…

— Christopher Isherwood

Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a…

— Ronald Takaki

. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre,…

— David Henry Hwang

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

— Junot Diaz

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort…

— Emma Goldman

Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young…

— Henry Giroux

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness…

— George Eliot

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.

— Ellis Paul Torrance

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever…

— Abraham Lincoln

Perhaps only some young women, perhaps only a minority of all women, will be able to effect such changes through consciousness alone,…

— Phyllis Chesler

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

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations.

— Alveda King

I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how…

— Jayson Blair

The Republicans that want to get rid of [Donald] Trump are a minority.

— Rush Limbaugh

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.

— Julian Barnes

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

— Edward Kennedy

I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I…

— Bryan Singer

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

I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

— Derek Bok

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

It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that…

— Mark Twain

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that…

— David Herbert Donald

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds…

— William Wallace

In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The…

— Vladimir Lenin

Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.

— Franklin P. Adams