#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

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#experience #live #lives #majority #may

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

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. ↗

— James D. Watson

#adherence #based #doctrinaire #everyone #evolution

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

— Edward Burns

#else #feel #films #forgotten #group

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. ↗

— James Madison

#great #majority #may #minority #republics

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

#aimed #bill #democratic #especially #every

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations. ↗

— Russell M. Nelson

#denominations #else #every #group #inevitably