Minorities Quotes

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Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want… — Billie Joe Armstrong
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. — Lord Acton
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. — Samuel Adams
The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us… — Glenn Beck
Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be… — John O. Brennan
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else. — Gwendolyn Brooks
Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else. — Gwendolyn Brooks
Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority. — William Jennings Bryan
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. — Edmund Burke
I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social… — Sherman Alexie
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. — Thomas Carlyle
Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president… — Graydon Carter
In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of… — Dick Cheney
If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could… — Cher
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. — Arthur C. Clarke
If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is… — Hillary Clinton
This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
La Raza stands for 'The Race' - and they say so openly. They are a pro-Hispanic organization; I will call them a racist organization. They… — Steve King
We need to be protecting American citizens who are here, out of work, and hurting today-minorities, Blacks and Whites and all colors and races that… — Jeff Sessions
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and… — Alan Barth
America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of… — Unknown Author
When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in… — John Howard Griffin
Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans. — Freeman A. Hrabowski III
This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to… — Tom Robbins

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