Minorities Quotes - Page 9

Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.

The thing about frontiers, it allows the individuals who are best, whether they're men or women or minorities or whatever, to step to the top. So in traditional societies, old world societies, in the United Kingdom if you would; if you were born into the right stratus, the right class, you had the ability to succeed.

It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.

Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and employment gaps that plague U.S. minorities.

It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

All progress comes from the creative minority.

Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.

And one day our grandkids will ask us, 'What was it like to be a minority?'

I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.

We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public.

Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

I don't think restaurants should refuse to serve minority people. They are quite tasty when prepared correctly.

The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel.

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

Always look out for the little notes˘like minorities.

Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.

Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government.

Islam developed in opposition to orthodox Christianity from the very start, and it considers itself superior to Christianity. So far, it has only been tolerant in places where it is in the minority.