Minorities Quotes - Page 3

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Faithful people have always been in a marked minority.

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

I don't use the word minority because there is nothing minor about me.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

Women, as the minority, have to prove their worth all the time. That's the reason we tend to over-prepare, over-study, over-anticipate. I think it's the case with many women leaders. We tend to over do it.

Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

As long as being a stranger and surrounded by strangers was seen as a temporary irritant, a smallest departure from the binding rules of conduct by a member of a minority, was taken for a major crime justifying deportation.

The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue.

Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It's made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a curriculum that chases particularly women and minorities away.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

The minority yields to the majority!

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

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

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

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 to be your entire life.

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.

The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.