Minority Quotes · Page 6

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

— Joanna Russ

“Even if you are a minority of one it does not make you wrong”

— George Orwell

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

— Lee Isaac Chung

“History honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget.”

— Suzy Kassem

It is no less the duty of the minority than a majority to endeavour to defend the country.

— John C. Calhoun

I welcome an arms race for minority ethnic voters. This will ensure we all raise our game.

— Sadiq Khan

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— Julianne Moore

I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your…

— Eddie Huang

To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and…

— Gordon W. Allport

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and…

— Bella Abzug

Scripts specify 'minority' when it doesn't seem necessary. Given this is a traditionally liberal and progressive industry, it's surprisingly backwards.

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

If you are a minority, it is important that you have legal ways to defend yourself in the society in which you…

— Shelby Steele

The amount of players who get into trouble in the NFL is a very small minority, but they are the ones who…

— Pat McAfee

Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature turned out to be…

— Joseph Brodsky

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

“A Creative Minority is a Christian community in a web of stubbornly loyal relationships, knotted together in a living network of persons…

— Anonymous

I'm in a real minority as far as having really supportive parents in regards to the arts. They never batted an eye…

— Darren Criss

If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to…

— Alan Watts

There is this huge Roma problem in Europe. There are a lot of Romas who are discriminated against in countries like the…

— Evgeny Morozov

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic…

— Vladimir Lenin

Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups,…

— Samantha Power

It's always the case that the minority has to navigate two different worlds. Women have to know how to live in a…

— Sterling K. Brown

I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be…

— Patricia Ireland

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

— Carol Kane

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

— Bob McDonnell

“Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.”

— John Brockman

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

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In Estonia, the Russian minority can move freely, travel freely, work anywhere in Europe.

— Kersti Kaljulaid

What about the majority? I'm so tired of protecting the rights of the minority. What about the rest of the country?

— Ainsley Earhardt

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

There is no doubt that there are some racist police, I think they're the minority, I think they're the few bad apples…

— Robert C. O'Brien

Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.

— William Hague

The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the…

— Olympia Snowe

Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much…

— Lysander Spooner

I'm a competitor. And I don't want to say, hey, just because this person is a woman or this person is a…

— Cory Booker

“What better way is there to police the streets of a minority community than to turn one generation against the other?”

— Audre Lorde

I think, overall, there is a lack of diversity in the arts. I'm thinking about when I was in grad school: I…

— Adrienne C. Moore

Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the…

— Emma Goldman