Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated. — Nicole Beharie Copy Share Image
I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority… — Harold Ford, Jr Copy Share Image
In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience. — Firoozeh Dumas Copy Share Image
Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken… — Charles Tupper Copy Share Image
I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
At a minimum if we can just have enough distribution of clout in society so it isn't run by a tiny minority,… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
I had all this anxiety about what it meant to be a minority. My professors - the same men who taught me… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that, in some senses, could be thought of as traditionally… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It does look like it's almost like South Africa to this extent: You have a white - what's the word - feeble… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Those of us who grew up in the '50s and '60s, we had the dream that this could be turned around, and… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
Recognizing that the world is governed by a minority, the sexually active, and that they hold sway of a huge majority of… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed, gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority. — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps. — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that… — Tom Daschle Copy Share Image
In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority. — William Hague Copy Share Image
The Turkish road is not my model because I am critical of the way you are dealing with freedom of expression, of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk… — Mitsuye Yamada Copy Share Image
I think historically, the Republican party has not nominated many women or minorities and they had a difficult time getting those votes. — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The only minority in America that's asking for integration is the so-called Negro, primarily because he is inferior, not inherently inferior, but… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
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