Quotes with minorities

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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bryan Singer I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • Bruce Nordstrom I'm not sure how to say this without making it sound corny, but I honestly feel this is the way to run a business. Our work force needs to mirror these communities, and we've got to get aggressive in recruiting and promoting minorities.
    Bruce Nordstrom
    American businessman (1933 - )
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  • Ann Coulter If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bernie Sanders Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
    Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Abba Eban 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
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Arthur Laffer The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lord Acton The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • James Baldwin We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Barbra Streisand We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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