#minority

Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor. ↗

— Peter Welch

#casting #congress #debt #debt limit #favor

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#fundamentalists #i #i think #identify #minority

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

— William Hague

#even #find #indefensible #isolated #minority

Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#change #coherent #either #forces #future

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids. ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#died #eyes #father #filtered #her

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#any #appoint #consent #constitution #does

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them. ↗

— Edward Burns

#else #feel #films #forgotten #group

I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are bombarded with images from TV, film, magazines, newspapers. ↗

— Spike Lee

#america #bombarded #culture #dominant #every

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. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#call #certain #defined #democratic #democratic society

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream. ↗

— Eric Liu

#family #far #fit #great #instead