#minority

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#minority #new #opinion #precisely #starting

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

#automatically #being #felt #gay #i

Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups. If you don't have a high level of training or education you're going to fall into that category. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#cases #category #during #education #fall

... 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

#minority #role-models #family

...so bear in mind that majorities, especially respectable ones, are nine times out of ten in the wrong; and that if you see man or boy striving earnestly on the weak side, however wrong-headed or blundering he may be, you are not to go and join the cry against him. If you can't join him and help him, and make him wiser, at any rate remember that he has found something in the world which he will fight and suffer for.... ↗

— Thomas Hughes

#underdog #respect

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

#minority #freedom

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#minority #oppression #race-relations #responsibility #sexual-orientation

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#anyone #belong #black #call #else

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#believe #color #comes #crosses #killing

I'm very conscious that I'm in the minority in that I love what I do. How big is the number of people who are running to work to do a job that they like? And how lucky to be employed at it - how incredibly lucky. ↗

— Judi Dench

#conscious #employed #how #i #i do