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“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.”

Party Limits Members Vote Majority Congress Painful Debt Favors Minorities Casting Whips

Author:Peter Welch

“I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.”

I Can Members Minorities

Author:Matthew Vaughn

“Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.”

War Nations Causes Danger Wall Members Normal Solutions Convinced Broke Civil War Minorities Nerves Conferences Treaties Persecuted Tariffs

Author:E. M. Forster

“You're either a rationalist, or you're not. And the good news is a recent poll found 20% of adults under 30 say they are rationalists, and have figured out that Santa Claus and Jesus are really the same guy. Now, 20% is hardly a majority. But it's a bigger minority than blacks, jews, homosexuals, NRA members, teachers, or seniors... and it's certainly enough to stop being shy about expressing the opinion that we're not the crazy ones!”

Enough Guy Found Jesus Opinion Teacher Crazy Members News Adults Bigger Majority Jew Minorities Shy Senior Homosexual Good News Polls Santa Santa Claus Nra Being Shy

Author:Bill Maher

“In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.”

Results Class History Millions Members Died Russia Minorities Warfare Persecution Class Warfare

Author:Niall Ferguson

“Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.”

Source: Making Sense

“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.”

Kind Seems Faces Lost Given Cities Groups Members Evidence Contrary Minorities Urban Tribes Handful Appointments Sanctity Prompts Punctuality Timer Minority Groups

Book:Close to Home

Source: Close to Home

“Who are beneficiaries of the Court's protection? Members of various minorities including criminals, atheists, homosexuals, flag burners, illegal immigrants (including terrorists), convicts, and pornographers.”

Religion Members Court Including Atheist Various Protection Criminals Terrorist Minorities Immigrants Illegal Flags Homosexual Illegal Immigrants Convicts Beneficiaries

Author:Pat Buchanan

“Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]”

Mean Littles Members Minorities Nasty Jerk Discworld Vetinari

Book:The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld

Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld

“One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.”

Wells Helping Race Members Difficulty Minorities Bores

Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The later simple stories

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The later simple stories

“Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political and social coercive institutions within society. In place of the present capitalistic economic order Anarchists would have a free association of all productive forces based upon co-operative labour, which would have as its sole purpose the satisfying of the necessary requirements of every member of society, and would no longer have in view the special interest of privileged minorities within the social union.”

Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

“With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I think our collective freedom requires that.”

People Thinking Democracy Growing Equal Members Population Minorities Collectives Can Not Integrated

Author:Richard Benjamin

“Affirmative action ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous bureaucratic sense that certain racial groups, regardless of class, are minorities. So what happens is those "minorities" at the very top of the ladder get chosen for everything.”

Real Matter Happens Action Certain Race Class Groups Members No Matter What Chosen Minorities Our Society Ladders Affirmative Action Affirmative Disadvantaged

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.”

People Hard Young Poor Path Groups Youth Hard Work Walking Members Adversity Obstacles Cures Preparation Minorities Minority Groups

Author:Barbara Jordan

“As members of a minority, one that was often persecuted, that entrepreneurial perspective was burnished with a sense of "outsider" status - so not only were we committed to finding our own way of achieving success, we also grew up to believe that we'd have to fight to get whatever we wanted.”

Way Believe Wanted Fighting Achieve Perspective Grew Members Findings Grew Up Committed Minorities Outsiders Entrepreneurial Persecuted Achieving Success

Author:Lewis Schiff

“As long as being a stranger and surrounded by strangers was seen as a temporary irritant, a smallest departure from the binding rules of conduct by a member of a minority, was taken for a major crime justifying deportation.”

Long Taken Crime Members Majors Stranger Minorities Temporary Smallest Departure Binding Deportation Irritants

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“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.”

Evil Literature Groups Members Awful Good And Evil Minorities Marvelous Insignificant Exceptional Minority Groups Minority Government

Author:Norman Mailer

“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.”

Should Shows Religious Groups Members Organization Majority Tolerance Minorities Somewhere Else Denominations

Author:Russell M. Nelson

“Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.”

Deals Members Majors Bigger Bills Congress Minorities Amendments Minors Adjustment Legislators Lawmakers

Book:Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire

Source: Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire

“Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?”

Way Made Age Members Characteristics Minorities Migrants

Book:In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

Source: In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

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