Quotes of: Minor Keyword

George: Let's leave the Jews out of this just for a moment. Let's think of another minority. One that... One that can go unnoticed if it needs to. There are all sorts of minorities, blondes for example... Or people with freckles. But a minority is on...

A Single Man

I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.

Clarence Thomas

The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.

The Minority Report

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

Rand Paul

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

William Jennings Bryan

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

Beware the tyranny of the minority.

Latin

How many people today live in a language that is not their own? Or no longer, or not yet, even know their own and know poorly the major language that they are forced to serve? This is the problem of immigrants, and especially of their children, the p...

Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature

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 i...

Ayn Rand

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.

Robert Byrd

Hold short services for minor gods.

Nepalese

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

Bob Uecker

A text by a minority writer is effective only if it succeeds in making the minority point of view universal. ('The Universal and the Particular')" ... In claiming the lesbian point of view as universal, she overturns the concepts to which we are accu...

The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

My heart is small, like a love of buttons or black pepper.

In the Voice of a Minor Saint

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

Abba Eban

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

Andrew Sullivan

Wild Horses" started in a B-minor chord, and Stu didn't play minor chords, "fucking Chinese music.

LIFE

For a moment the radio wavered between stations and I was so busy making myself marvelous.

In the Voice of a Minor Saint

Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.

Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball

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

I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.

David Oyelowo