Conflict Quote by Gordon W. Allport

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful,…

— Norman Mailer

One has to give minority groups a kind of reward, an emotional reward, that it is worthwhile assimilating to this particular majority group. And…

— Norbert Elias

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…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable…

— H. L. Mencken

When everybody in a group is susceptible to similar biases, groups are inferior to individuals, because groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.

— Daniel Kahneman

It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register…

— Mary Parker Follett

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

— William E. Gladstone

“The first problem with the word “diversity” is the word itself. Who is diverse in relation to whom? The way diversity is often framed…

— Louis Yako

The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws…

— Anton Chekhov

Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

— Sigmund Freud

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

— Guillaume Canet

“When a people share a common oppression, certain kinds of skills and joint defenses are developed. And if you survive you survive because those…

— Audre Lorde