#minority

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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.


Norman Mailer


#both #characterizes #evil #exceptional #forced

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.


Marilyn Monroe


#belonging #demanded #few #freedom #i

A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.


Joel Silver


#films #influenced #like #logan #lot

To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.


William H. Seward


#add #claim #disproportionate #majority #minority

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.


Antony Sher


#belong #constantly #courage #gay #groups

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.


Mahatma Gandhi


#courage #majority #minority #truth #courage

I've never been part of the minority before, never have had to struggle to belong, so I figured I'd milk the experience for all it was worth. Don't they say adversity builds character?


Apol Lejano-Massebieau


#experience

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.


Ayn Rand


#claim #defenders #deny #earth #individual

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


#freedom #irate #keen #majority #men

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.


Samuel Adams


#does #fires #irate #keen #majority