Minority Quotes · Page 2

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”

— Mark Twain

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Rush Limbaugh

Most of my friends were white. I grew up really the only minority in my school, along with my sister.

— Lee Isaac Chung

There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor.

— Bob McDonnell

I know that I'm in the minority to be able to keep working all these years. But I want more!

— Carol Kane

“We redheads are a minority, we tend to notice each other - you know, and notice our identity”

— Julianne Moore

“Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.”

— DaShanne Stokes

If you are a junior member of a minority party - one of 100 people - in the U.S. Senate, what really…

— Diana Taylor

Amendment of the constitution is the minority's affair. Constitutions are invented to protect the rights of suppressed groups.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

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

— Nancy Mairs

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

— DaShanne Stokes

Coal is used to generate power almost everywhere, but problems associated with coal ash and coal ash slurry disproportionately affect low-income and…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

Yes, the cost of care homes is a huge expense, but only a minority of elderly Brits ever spend a single night…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was…

— Manfred von Richthofen

Minority founders often feel like they are on the outside looking in when it comes to Silicon Valley and tech startups in…

— Michael Seibel

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in…

— John Sununu

I would never come out and say I was gay, because I'm not gay. And there's part of me that kind of…

— Pete Wentz

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

— Mark Twain

It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a…

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

I just don't understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can't figure it. I don't understand. If you're…

— Cher

The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

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

— Noam Chomsky

“It’s time to introduce a new fallacy that we have coined the Kool-Aid Fallacy. It goes like this: “You disagree with me…

— Thomas Stark

“Currently, “minority” students represent a majority in all but two of our twenty-five largest cities, and by some estimates, the turn of…

— Lisa Delpit

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

— Robert Altman

The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.

— Murray Rothbard

And one day our grandkids will ask us, 'What was it like to be a minority?'

— Christy Haubegger

Being a minority voice is still brave - even if the minority voice is from the right wing.

— Katie Hopkins

I understand the disadvantages that the world has decided that I have, as a woman and as a minority.

— Myha'la

I'm Cuban, so I know for a fact that we are the largest minority group in this country.

— J. R. Ramirez

“Reasonable humans are the only minority in this world..”

— Danilo Vukovljak

“We are all, at times, in the majority. But we are also all, at times, in the minority.”

— Gavin Esler

We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things.

— Sue Hubbell

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

— Mariella Frostrup

Minority ethnic issues need to be mainstream issues.

— Sadiq Khan

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

— Tom Daschle

I'm of the minority opinion that presidents should be given more power for less time.

— Steven Soderbergh

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

— Henry David Thoreau