Minorities Quotes

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 individual). Ayn Rand
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. Ayn Rand
Rights Minority Earth Those Claim Minorities Individual Individual Rights Smallest Deny Cannot Who Defenders
Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. Bill Gates
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The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country. Thomas Sowell
Time Progress Long Country Looking Too Promote Minorities Through Leaders Counterproductive Polarizing Attitudes Disastrous Overdue Stop Racial Ethnic Incentives Many Actions
Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits. Henry Giroux
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One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. James K. Polk
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We in the United States believe in the protection of minorities; we recognize the contributions that they can make and the leadership that they can provide; and we do not believe that any people - whether majority or minority, or individual human beings - are 'expendable' in the cause of theory or of policy. Robert Kennedy
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Our national political campaigns never stop. We seem convinced that majorities exist to impose their will with few concessions and that minorities exist to prevent the party in power from doing anything important. That's not how we were meant to govern. John McCain
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To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them. Lysander Spooner
Saying Rights Ought Please Rule Say Minorities Except Allow Equivalent Them Right
Tyrants and dictators have incited hatred against ethnic and religious minorities for centuries in order to consolidate power for themselves. Bob Menendez
Hatred Power Tyrants Consolidate Religious Minorities Dictators Order Against Centuries Themselves Ethnic
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. Wendell Phillips
Rights Protection Enemies Few Rich Minorities Protect Exist Governments Friends Loved Many Need
We should always care for the minorities and be attentive towards their welfare. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Welfare Care Minorities Towards Attentive Always Should
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else. Gwendolyn Brooks
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That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income. Harold Washington
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I don't think that people generally realize what the motion picture industry has done to the American Indian, as a matter of fact, all ethnic groups. All minorities. All non-whites. People just simply don't realize. They take it for granted that that's the way people are going to be presented and that these cliches are just going to be perpetuated. Marlon Brando
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The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities. Mindy Kaling
Funny You Age Racism Minority Parents Every Other Minorities See About Something Almost Between Stereotyping Know Stories Funniest
We must not only imagine a better future for women, children, and persecuted minorities; we must work consistently to make it happen - prioritizing humanity, not war. Nadia Murad
Work War Future Women Humanity Better Consistently Must Minorities Only Better Future Make Make It Happen Persecuted Children Happen Imagine
It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities. Paul Wolfowitz
People Other Bad Minorities Bad Thing Persecute Very Thing Exterminate
I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people who were gay or lesbian or trans or people who aren't blonde haired and blue-eyed. I have short hair, and I am covered in tattoos. I like showing people that it's within their rights to be different. Ruby Rose
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue. Adam Cohen
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It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote. Adam Cohen
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Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups. Ahmed Zewail
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If companies can refuse to provide coverage for women, what other objections to the Affordable Care Act will we see based on 'religious grounds'? For that matter, will 'religious freedom' be used as an excuse to discriminate against other minorities and disenfranchised groups across the board? Where will it end? Al Sharpton
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Bourgeois values aren't just for white people. The irony is: Bourgeois values can help minorities get ahead. Amy Wax
People Values White Minorities Bourgeois Get Irony Just Help
I would argue that electing Donald Trump would be a disaster for minorities; it would be a disaster when it comes to foreign policy. Ana Kasparian
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Democracy doesn't automatically safeguard women and minorities. Anand Giridharadas
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