Minority Quotes
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Minor Quotes
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Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak
Robert Green Ingersoll
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America`s newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers.
Loren Ghiglione
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Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles
James D. Watson
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Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass
Emma Goldman
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That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world
John Adams
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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate ...
Thomas Jefferson
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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution
Abraham Lincoln
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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the...
Ayn Rand
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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the...
Ayn Rand
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Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
George Orwell
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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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
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[On why he makes films about Irish-Americans] "I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them. You have Woody Allen and Paul Mazursky making films about Jewish-Americans, you have Martin Scorsese and Franci...
Edward Burns
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What is a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
Robert Altman
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Actors are the world`s oldest, underprivileged minority - looked upon as nothing but buffoons, one step above thieves and charlatans. These award ceremonies simply compound the image for me.
George C. Scott
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Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.
George Michael
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Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.
Andrew Lochart
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When you`re in the minority, it doesn`t matter what you`re agenda is, you`re not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.
Tom Daschle
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When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
Akihiko Yokoyama
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When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
Akihiko Yokoyama
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We`ve got to help small businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. We`ve got to increase opportunities for everyone and we can do that by helping women and minority-owned businesses.
Anand Mohan
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We will not allow a minority to dictate to us how to live our lives,
Craig David
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We recognize there`s a need for more minority employees, but we also know that (minority) applicants are hard to come by in general.
Janet Jones
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We recognize there`s a need for more minority employees, but we also know that (minority) applicants are hard to come by in general.
Janet Jones
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We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it.
Darius Rucker
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We must never again let America be led into a fratricidal war like the last two world wars, for the sake of alien, minority interests.
George Lincoln Rockwell
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We know we`re up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.
Tom Daschle
