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Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life. — John F. Kennedy

A lot of people want to keep country music in the minority of people. But it belongs to the world. It's art. — Ray Price

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority. — Mariella Frostrup

While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline ... When he is in the minority ... he is against it. — Anastas Mikoyan

I must settle for freedom in this modern time — Leila Aboulela

A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority. — Leo Baeck

Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans. — Edward Kennedy

Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances. — Tom Freston

In place of Revenge, the Minority Mindset teaches to seek Peace and Reconciliation — Paul Gitwaza

Democracy's real test lies in its respect for minority opinion. — Ellery Sedgwick

The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society. — Peter Drucker

I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works. — Dan Webster

Men in authority are now a threatened minority. — Ilana Mercer

We must believe we are capable of transcending evil, of not needing to hide in the darkness or surrender to our basest fears. — Michael R. French

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

The bottom line is I'm a slow zombie guy - I'm always a slow zombie guy but I also know I'm in the minority. — Max Brooks

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

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world — Charles Spurgeon

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. — Will Durant

There are many of us now. Enough to be called a people in ourselves and not merely a mistake. — N.K. Jemisin

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries. — Ayn Rand

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. — Samuel Adams

It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election. — Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos

I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that. — Harold Ford Jr.

Sing in me, o Muse, of that small minority of men who are secure enough in their masculinity to use the feminine third-person singular! — Mary Norris

I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path. — Eddie Huang

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise. — Jane Fonda

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. — Ralph W. Sockman

In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking. — Takashi Murakami

Lebanon is our country, and in it we are staying (as a minority christians). — Samir Geagea

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces. — Mikhail Bakunin

...I had an acute sense that the walls were closing in on "real" Christians... For the first time in my life, I felt like a persecuted minority. — J.D. Vance

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

It's good to have female or minority role models. But the important thing is to have mentors who care about you, and they come in all colors. — Condoleezza Rice

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. — George Orwell

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. — Edmund Burke

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules. — Evan Esar

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. — Thomas Carlyle

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action. — Sonia Sotomayor

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If human beings were made in such a way that we believed only what is true, sane people would have been in the minority. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class. — George Orwell

A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them. — Joel Silver

There's no perk in being closed-minded as a minority. It's never, ever, ever going to help you, ever. — Baratunde R. Thurston

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority. — Millard Fuller

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.

One of my messages to Republicans is very simple: One-third of your schedule should be listening to people in minority communities. — Newt Gingrich

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. — Gloria Steinem

The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority. — Israelmore Ayivor

Emerson pointed out, The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. — Bohdi Sanders

In caving to an extremist minority that represents no one but itself, you acknowledge its power. — Charb

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

The majority rejoice in the 'silo' mentality but the minority seek 'think tanks' whose advice brings significant reforms — Paul Gitwaza

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right. — Freeman Dyson

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way. — Ibn Warraq

I think you and the referee were in a minority of one, Billy. — Jimmy Armfield

People with disabilities are the largest minority in the world, and we are the most underrepresented in entertainment. — Maysoon Zayid

Faithful people have always been in a marked minority. — Arthur W. Pink

I have not seen 'Legally Blonde.' I must be in the small, ever-dwindling minority on that one. — Alfred Enoch

Moreover, in those instances where the political success of a minority group has come first, the result has often been slower socioeconomic progress. — Jason L. Riley

A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years. — Fethullah Gulen

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed — Lee Harvey Oswald

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets. — Karel Reisz

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me. — Henry A. Kissinger

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong. — Jodi Picoult

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority. — James F. Cooper

All that can accurately be said about a man who thinks he is a poached egg is that he is in the minority. — James Burke

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

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy. — Robert Caro

When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not. — Aldo Leopold

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority. — Tom Daschle

It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. — Samuel Adams

White America is in the minority. — Malcolm X

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. — Henri Poincare

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority. — Jesse Jackson

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority? — Amin Maalouf

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading. — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority. — Alf Landon

You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life. — Anthony Scaramucci

When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol. — Joel Salatin

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. — James Madison

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

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world. — Tony McCoy

Christians should be a foreign influence, a minority group in a pagan world. — Billy Graham

High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America. — Jerry Rubin

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority. — Tony Blankley

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority. — George Lopez

The majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former. — Theodore Roosevelt

How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country. — Dean Acheson

The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles. — Kabir Bedi

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. — John Bartholomew Gough

Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious? — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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. — Barbara Jordan

I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority. — Barney Frank

In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience. — Firoozeh Dumas

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. — John Corigliano

When you are in the minority, talk; when you are in the majority, vote. — Roger Sherman

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue — Samuel Adams