Minority Quotes

• The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Generation
  • Majority
  • Minority

• Part of the problem of being labeled a model minority is that everyone thinks you've made it, but that's far from the case. You can see that in the horrific stories where undocumented workers are trying to get into the country. That's the backlash.

  

  Arthur Dong
  • Problem
  • Model
  • Minority

• 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.

  

  Nancy Mairs
  • Live
  • Minority
  • Join

• The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Opinion
  • Stronger
  • Minority

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

  

  Stephen Harper
  • Work
  • Parliament
  • Minority

• Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I’m glad that’s not me. It’s basically the same in all periods in all societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Glad
  • Societies
  • Troubling

• We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things.

  

  Sue Hubbell
  • World
  • Humans
  • Minority

• It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.

  

  Ellis Paul Torrance
  • Courage
  • Idea
  • Creative

• Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Opinion
  • Starting
  • Minority

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