In minority communities there’s a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There’s a misunderstanding of what an artist does.
It’s a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.
Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
I’m surprised that more people don’t emulate Rachel Dolezal and pretend to be black or members of some other minority. Our gullible society rushes to reward such status, often with jobs and money.
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
In the U.S., requiring voters to produce photo ID in order to vote is just part of a much wider and more open system of discrimination against poor and ethnic minority voters.
Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.
Women are a minority the same way gay people are.
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.
The natural result of people preferring one of their own race is that a minority race president will find it hard to get elected, and so it’s something we should do something about and which we can do something about.
The fact that I am a Filipino actor playing a Filipino role is crazy. Filipinos are the second largest Asian minority in the United States, and we’re hardly represented in the media and on television.
India is a land of minorities. Everyone belongs to some minority.
It is no less the duty of the minority than a majority to endeavour to defend the country.
Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity’s nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units.
The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.
I’m of the minority opinion that presidents should be given more power for less time.
You can’t be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.
I’m going to say yes, I reckon we’ll have the first BME (black or minority ethnicity) prime minister.
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.
As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture. It is a bond of shared experience – experiences that only women go through and struggles that only women face.
I have learned how to take votes where I had to hold my nose because I had to compromise – something that you learn to do, especially when you have been in the minority.
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
By creating a minority quota in lending the government is clearly playing politics and wants to fatten its vote banks, whether or not it makes commercial sense.
Republicans are a shrinking minority ruling an increasingly angry majority that not only wants to change the Republican policies that are moving wealth upward, but also threatens to hold Republican leaders accountable to the law.
The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn’t surprise anyone who understands power politics. It’s always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up.
Our Founders worried a lot about the tyranny of the majority. They designed our form of government to provide a loud voice for minority points of view. They hated the idea of unilateral power. And wanted to force advocates and policy makers, through structure and process, to compromise.
With any minority group, it takes a strong presence in the public eye to make a change because everything nowadays is social media.
You know, I would like to ask to the other parts of Canada to respect the minority of the French Canadians.
When I was at MIT I was a good model minority. But the concept of an Indian immigrant creating e-mail in Newark, N.J., blows the mind of certain people.
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
I’m the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It’s like, ‘OK, I can just read a book.’
I cannot be any clearer, minority governments don’t work.
Proactive policing has saved tens of thousands of minority lives since the mid-1990s.
The argument has been made that smart women on screen are already enough of a minority to make up for the lack of women of color. Nope. Not good enough.
An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn’t immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage.
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.
Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.
What about the majority? I’m so tired of protecting the rights of the minority. What about the rest of the country?
Racism at the stadium should be ignored, it is not right that this minority are given so much attention.
There is no doubt that there are some racist police, I think they’re the minority, I think they’re the few bad apples and we need to root them out.
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.
You get a lot of stick in this job, and I don’t mean political opposition that is part of your job but real abuse. And unfortunately, if you are from an ethnic minority, that may include racial or religious abuse.
Far too often, jobs and opportunities seem out of reach for young adults, especially in underserved, minority and low-income communities.
Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
I’m in a real minority as far as having really supportive parents in regards to the arts. They never batted an eye as far as not letting me do that stuff. That’s invaluable. I can’t believe how unabashedly supportive they were about everything, between music and acting.
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.
As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa’s small Indian minority against racial discrimination.
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.
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
A minority government can’t govern without support from other parties.
Unfortunately, when you look at the amount of comic book heroes out there, minority heroes are few and far between.
People always imagine that the whole of Victorian England was sitting around reading Alice in Wonderland – in fact only a tiny minority ever did.
How can we even call this a Democracy when the House, the Senate, the White House, and now the Supreme Court are all controlled by the representatives of a minority group in America?
If someone writes a stereotyped trans character, it’s really harmful on a macro level in solidifying public perception of trans people because we’re such a small minority group but it’s also detrimental to the life of the actor, who needs the paycheck even if the role is bad.
In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
I am a young woman, with a regional accent, from a working class family, who has had a pretty standard education. So far, so ordinary. But in the places I’ve worked, one or more of these things would put me in the minority.
