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#minorities

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #minorities




If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf.


Armistead Maupin


#minorities #america

In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.


Jane Harman


#associates #firms #first #fraction #graduated

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.


James K. Polk


#appeal #constitution #minorities #oppression #right

You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.


Junot Díaz


#intelligence #minorities #readers #x-men #intelligence

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.


John Acton


#certain #country #enjoyed #free #judge

The terrible tyranny of the majority.


Ray Bradbury


#diversity #minorities #democracy

I want companies who get federal contracts to hire more women and minorities from the local area.


Hilda Solis


#companies #contracts #federal #get #hire

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.


Alice Walker


#bright #country #fifties #free #ghettos

Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.


Timothy Garton Ash


#bit #canadians #ethnic #europeans #immigration

Sam, that's a great concept. And maybe you believe it. But I'm black and I'm a lesbian, so let me tell you: From what I know? Personal experience? There are always lines.


Michael Grant


#differences #minorities #experience






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