Minorities Quotes

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by a small minority.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.

Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

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.

It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.

A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they're not attracted to me... these minority women... they're the only women I can get cause everyone else is scared of me.

Everyone who chooses to live in Europe must accept the basic values. This includes the rule of law as well as equality of men and women and non-discrimination against religious and other minorities.

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.

There are certain standards, like the protection of minorities and the improvement in their lives that have to be improved now.

Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.

The problem of insufficient security was, until quite recently, a matter of a minority; now it is becoming very quickly a majority matter. That is a major change.

Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.

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

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

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

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!

All progress comes from the creative minority.

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

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.

I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice.

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.

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

[Malcolm X] shared with Marcus Garvey a commitment to building strong black institutions. He shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a commitment to peace and the freedom of racialized 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.

The problem of sexual minorities in Russia has been deliberately made controversial in Russia. There is no such problem in Russia.

I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don’t hide within it.

In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.

The only place I want to travel to is the United States Of America from 2008 to 2016. Anywhere else is a horribly dangerous time for women and minorities.

Religious minorities (including Jews) will have to wear special insignia in Iraq

The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against McCarthy.

I think all minority audiences watch movies with hope. They hope they will see what they want to see. That's why nobody really sees the same movie.

I believe the minorities need to have a strategy of survival because needless aggression when you cannot change the situation does not help. Wisdom is more important than saving some cultural symbol.

We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call "free Syrian army." That's what we said.

Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.

In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.

The best assurance the role of minorities can be given is that they will not be viewed as minorities but as citizens.

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.