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source: "Origin Interview: Diggin' Deep with Bonnie Raitt, Legend, Activist, Musician". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

topic: Dream, Opportunity, Men, Minority Groups, Playing Fields

If you ignore somebody's record and only focus on something that happened 25 years ago when all they were doing even then was trying to stand up for a minority group that felt excluded and discriminated against, then I don't - I think that is a distortion of a person's record. I mean, a person's record is full, not just the parts that you want to use against them.

- Keith Ellison

source: "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

topic: Mean, Thinking, Years, Minority Groups

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

- Jack Germond

topic: Groups, Minorities, Sense Of Humor, Minority Groups

Although a government study found that men's health was much worse than women's health or the health of any minority group, headlines around the country read: 'Minorities Face Large Health Care Gap.' They did not say: 'Men Face Large Health Care Gap.' Why? Because we associate the sacrifice of men's lives with the saving of the rest of us, and this association leads us to carry in our unconscious an incentive not to care about men living longer.

- Warren Farrell

source: "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

topic: Country, Sacrifice, Men, Minority Groups, Women's Health

I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, on the sanctity of being on time. Which is to say that we On-timers are compulsively, unfashionably prompt, that there are only handfuls of us in any given city and, unfortunately, we never seem to have appointments with each other.

- Ellen Goodman

topic: Cities, Groups, Minorities, Minority Groups, Timer

It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.

- Marian Wright Edelman

source: Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.26, Beacon Press

topic: Stress, America, Color, Minority Groups, Respite

My comments concerning persons afflicted with AIDS as well as various minority groups have left people wondering if I am a racist.

- John Rocker

source: "John Rocker Apologizes For Racist Remarks". "CNN News" with Andria Hall, www.cnn.com. March 2, 2000.

topic: People, Groups, Minorities, Minority Groups

My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when enough people, and it's always the young, the creative, and minority groups drop out and go back to a tribal form.

- Timothy Leary

topic: Reading, Rome, Turkeys, Minority Groups

The security and happiness of all minority groups in South Africa depend on the Afrikaner. Whether they are English- or German- or Portuguese- or Italian-speaking, or even Jewish-speaking, makes no difference.

- P. W. Botha

source: Sunday Times, November 5, 2006.

topic: Italian, Differences, Groups, Minority Groups, Portuguese

. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also its institutional structures. This has been an important goal of mine, as there have always been a variety of issues - artistic freedom, author's rights, access by minority groups - which have concerned me and even influenced my decision to become a playwright in the first place.

- David Henry Hwang

topic: Rights, Issues, Goal, Minority Groups, Artistic Freedom

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

- George Michael

topic: Political, Groups, Minorities, Minority Groups

Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.

- Jeffrey Kluger

topic: Mean, Mind, Black, Minority Groups, All Black

Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Country, America, Russia, Soviet Russia, Minority Groups

We've always had the blame-America crowd. We've always had the hate-America crowd. But we've now had at least two generations of education where this has been indoctrinated into the young skulls full of mush of young people. They've heard how horrible America was back in the days of slavery. They've heard how horrible America treated women. They've heard how horrible every minority group was treated. They've heard how mean-spirited the founders were. They've heard all kinds of literal lies.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Lying, Hate, Mean, Mean Spirited, Minority Groups

While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.

- Conrad Black

topic: Powerful, Exercise, Men, Minority Groups

In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.

- Michael Kenny

topic: Voice, Community, Minorities, Minority Groups

French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in the UK may well prove to be a major asset in this effort.

- David Graddol

topic: Effort, Groups, Example, Minority Groups, International Language

IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us.

- Huey Newton

topic: Believe, Cutting, Self, Minority Groups, Brainwash

The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater national entity. For that they have to be confident that they too have an active role to play in shaping the destiny of the state that demands their allegiance.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

topic: Destiny, Play, Groups, Minority Groups

Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being wasted. Being a minority group militarily, they are proud and sensitive in their dealings with other military organizations. A Marine's concept of a perfect battle is to have other Marines on the right and left flanks, Marine aircraft overhead and Marine artillery and naval gunfire backing them up.

- Ernie Pyle

topic: Military, War, Believe, Minority Groups, Payday

The relative lack of power of certain minority groups and the fear they're feeling in the wake of Donald Trump's election, I think, is something we really need to take a look at, because, while I don't think Trump wants to target any particular minority group, I understand their fear, because he spent many months stoking it.

- Megyn Kelly

source: "Megyn Kelly On Trump And The Media: 'We're In A Dangerous Phase Right Now'". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. December 7, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Feelings, Months, Minority Groups

The more you lecture those running the companies on how they need to give more breaks to women or other minority groups and be more open-minded to their work products and perhaps question themselves on a double standard, the more some of those people shut down to your messaging. I'm not saying it's right; I'm just saying you can very easily get labeled as someone who sees everything through a prism of race or gender or what have you. So we have to walk a fine line. It's sad but it's the truth.

- Megyn Kelly

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Running, Race, Giving, Minority Groups, Prisms

There's no question that to some extent there are structural disadvantages built in, not just for women but for other minority groups who don't hold power at the executive level either at the company or in the industry. My position is not just "Oh, okay, anyone can overcome those." It's just as we work to get more women and people in minority groups at higher levels in positions of power, what are our options?

- Megyn Kelly

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Position Of Power, People, Levels, Minority Groups

Biologically speaking the Afro-Asiatic block is in the ascendancy - always remember that both Negro and White are minority groups - the largest race is the Mongoloid group.

- William S. Burroughs

source: Source: realitystudio.org

topic: Block, Race, White, Minority Groups, Ascendancy

We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal education opportunities? We believe that it does.

- Earl Warren

source: Earl Warren (1959). “The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren”

topic: Children, Believe, School, Minority Groups, Facility

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.

- John Lennon

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Voice, People, Ballet, Minority Groups, Folk Music

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.

- Solomon Ortiz

topic: Challenges, Groups, United States, Minority Groups

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

- S. I. Hayakawa

topic: Minority Groups

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