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The minority yields to the majority!
Author:
Deng Xiaoping
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The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
Author:
Vivienne Westwood
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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.
Author:
James Watson
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We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.
Author:
Diane Watson
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People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.
Author:
Jimmy Wales
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I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.
Author:
Matthew Vaughn
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That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.
Author:
Charles Tupper
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It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.
Author:
Charles Tupper
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In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.
Author:
Todd Tiahrt
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The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.
Author:
Strom Thurmond
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Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
Author:
Antonio Tabucchi
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When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
Author:
Andrew Sullivan
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A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.
Author:
Jock Sturges
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Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
Author:
Harlan Stone
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Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.
Author:
Margaret Spellings
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For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.
Author:
Jimmy Smits
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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.
Author:
Rob Simmons
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As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
Author:
Antony Sher
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As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us.
Author:
Moshe Sharett
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I bring other constituencies - I also have ties to minority communities. And obviously, to the world of world-class research universities. So I can bring some constituencies that I'm used to working with.
Author:
Donna Shalala
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At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
Author:
Adam Schiff
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The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them?
Author:
Eriq Salle
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Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
Author:
Joanna Russ
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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.
Author:
Darius Rucker
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A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
Author:
Carl Rowan
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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.
Author:
Bryan Robson
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
Author:
Abraham Robinson
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There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.
Author:
Manfred Richthofen
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Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.
Author:
Karel Reisz
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
Author:
Henri Poincare
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And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.
Author:
Lee Oswald
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To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.
Author:
Solomon Ortiz
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Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.
Author:
Marvin Olasky
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Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he came to establish will always be a minority affair.
Author:
Edward Norman
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I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Author:
Marilyn Monroe
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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.
Author:
George Michael
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South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
Author:
Thabo Mbeki
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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
Author:
Norman Mailer
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Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies.
Author:
Tran Luong
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I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.
Author:
William Labov
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Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
Author:
Aleksander Kwasniewski
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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
Author:
Peter Kropotkin
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In recurring episodes over the next couple of decades, the minority view gradually won. A profusion of factors differentiates each case from the others, including naked partisanship on both sides, but the trend has been clear.
Author:
Michael Kinsley
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Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority.
Author:
Marcy Kaptur
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People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.
Author:
Carol Kane
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There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
Author:
Barbara Jordan
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When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.
Author:
John Johnson
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I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents.
Author:
Patricia Ireland
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Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.
Author:
Gilbert Hernandez
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Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.
Author:
Paul Hawken
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If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.
Author:
Stephen Harper
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I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
Author:
Andrew Greeley
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The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.
Author:
William Gray
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004.
Author:
John Fund
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In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.
Author:
Peter Fenn
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
Author:
Abba Eban
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Author:
Will Durant
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Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.
Author:
David Donald
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We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.
Author:
Tom Daschle
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In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
Author:
Elijah Cummings
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The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.
Author:
Francis Crick
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The power of the sword, say the minority... is in the hands of Congress.
Author:
Tench Coxe
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Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
Author:
John Corigliano
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When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal.
Author:
Christiane Collage
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The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
Author:
Arthur Clarke
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If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?
Author:
Cher
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In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.
Author:
Dick Cheney
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.
Author:
Ben Campbell
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That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust.
Author:
Robert Byrd
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Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
Author:
Gwendolyn Brooks
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.
Author:
Gwendolyn Brooks
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It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.
Author:
John Bright
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The review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciary Committee were responsible for the invitation of 1/3 of the witnesses who appeared.
Author:
Jo Bonner
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What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
Author:
Robert Altman
