Minorities Quotes

When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.

My comments concerning persons afflicted with AIDS as well as various minority groups have left people wondering if I am a racist.

[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government.

In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.

Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.

The most important element of democracy, I believe, is the protection of minorities.

The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

If we mix only a moderate minority share of turds with the raisins each year, probably no one will recognize what will ultimately become a very large collection of turds.

Rich white guys. That's the true minority.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says he will not seek re-election. Harry said he wants to spend more time with his family. As I always say, check with your family.

Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans.

High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.

The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.

The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.

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

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

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 possibly possess you to vote Republican?

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security, he was very often in the minority.

I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.

Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican.

If you take away 'Schindler's List' and 'Saving Private Ryan', I like 'Minority Report' a lot.

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.

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.

I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

People with disabilities are the largest minority in the world, and we are the most underrepresented in entertainment.

It is always the minorities that hold the key of progress.

Lebanon is our country, and in it we are staying.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.

The white establishment is now the minority.

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 very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.

Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.