#unpopular

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#advocate #am #floor #how #i

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#his #our #our time #popular #rejected

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#anything #century #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#book #cause #having #high #high school

Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular. ↗

— Li Peng

#cold #cold war #end #increasingly #since

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#journalism #popular #sticking #unpopular #up

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

#bar #courageous #decision #defense #judge

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#growing up #guitar #house #i #me

He suddenly began to look wretched, much as I had seen him look as a schoolboy: lonely: awkward: unpopular: odd; no longer the self-confident businessman into which he had grown. His face now brought back the days when one used to watch him plodding off through the drizzle to undertake the long, solitary runs across the dismal fields beyond the sewage farms: runs which were to train him for teams in which he was never included. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#socially-inept #unpopularity #music

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it. ↗

— Rose Bird

#politically #right #role #smart #under