Minorities Quotes

• Democracy's real test lies in its respect for minority opinion.

  

  Ellery Sedgwick
  • Opinion
  • Tests
  • Minorities

• I don't think the Republicans care much about minorities.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Think
  • Care
  • Minorities

• People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Minorities
  • Identifying
  • Persecuted

• I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Accepting
  • Definitions
  • Privileged

• History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • History
  • Faith
  • Majority

• Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Backwards
  • Check
  • Minorities

• It's important that if one opposes discriminatory speech, one opposes all kinds. That is that one decides on a principle that it will include all minorities. But if the protection of one minority against another minority is what is happening, then I worry about that.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Worry
  • Speech
  • Minorities

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

  

  William Hague
  • Isolated
  • Minorities
  • Regimes

• These days I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist, but I don't really think my views do deviate from the Reformed tradition, though in some respects they may represent views that are not as popular now as they once were, or that may represent a minority report in the tradition.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Popular

• Minorities give their vote to the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party has given them lip service in terms of being involved in the party and in being major players.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • Party
  • Service
  • Players

• That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite claims to the contrary by Mr. Holder and his allies. As more states adopt such laws, the left has railed against them with increasing fury, even invoking the specter of the Jim Crow era to describe electoral safeguards common to most nations, including in the Third World.

  

  Edwin Meese
  • World
  • Evidence
  • Third World

• However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Liberty
  • Insignificant
  • Trifling

• Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Dozen

• Biologically speaking the Afro-Asiatic block is in the ascendancy - always remember that both Negro and White are minority groups - the largest race is the Mongoloid group.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Remember
  • Groups
  • Block

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

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Minorities

• Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

  

  William Wallace
  • Destruction
  • Heritage
  • Deny

• 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.

  

  William Taylor
  • Hatred
  • Traditional
  • Saddam

• World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • History
  • Determination
  • Minorities

• We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public; we strive to see all of these groups united, hand-in-hand, in opposition to the plundering and privileged minority that constitutes the rulers of the State.

  

  Murray Rothbard
  • Economic
  • Groups
  • Opposition

• Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Memories
  • Minorities
  • Five Senses

• The heart of assimilation process of absorbing minorities lies in the self-image of a nation. There are, as you will know, big differences for instance between the self-image of the French and the English. And the Germans, in accordance with their rather chequered history, had at least in the past very little capacity for absorbing minorities.

  

  Norbert Elias
  • Nation
  • Capacity
  • Self Image

• 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.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Circles
  • Minorities

• Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel we're publishing scooped the prestigious Bookseller's Award, for critically-acclaimed fiction that also has a wide popular appeal. She stands out for her focus on social minorities - her protagonists are slum inhabitants, trans women, orphans - and for the way she melds this hard-edged social critique with obliquely fantastical elements and offbeat dialogue.

  

  Deborah Smith
  • Generation
  • Fiction
  • Dialogue

• 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.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Human
  • Minorities

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