Minorities Quotes

595 Minorities quotes by 449 unique authors

The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by creating… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by… — A.C. Grayling
In a democracy, hostage tactics are the last resort for those who can’t otherwise win their fights through elections, can’t win their fights in Congress,… — Elizabeth Warren
The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black'… — John H. Johnson
My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities. — Mahatma Gandhi
Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life. — John F. Kennedy
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to… — Walter Lippmann
Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from others. People who… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend… — Edmund Burke
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty,… — Joseph Brodsky
The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind.… — Ayn Rand
Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get… — Florynce Kennedy
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The… — Susan Sontag
Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities. — Marvin Olasky
People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community. — Jimmy Wales
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader. — Julian Barnes
Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind.… — Octavio Paz
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence… — Michelle Malkin
There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually… — Mark Pincus
In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm… — Cristina Saralegui
In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their… — John Lewis
For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique… — Jimmy Smits

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