Quotes About Minorities In America

#1. If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf.

Armistead Maupin

#2. To love someone whom you like is insignificant.
To love someone because they love you is of no consequence.
To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life.
To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#3. CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.

John Piper

#4. I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America.

Condoleezza Rice

#5. When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#6. America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of one-it thinks and acts as if it were a nation of white Anglo-Saxons and Protestants.

Harold Cruse

#7. But blasting the drummer into the river, though it would have been easy at this range, was not a good way to be inconspicuous.

Neal Stephenson

#8. The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

Dennis Prager

#9. The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.

William H. Gray

#10. In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.

Eliot Spitzer

#11. That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.

Harold Washington

#12. I will make you love physics and your life will never be the same.

Walter Lewin

#13. The drug war has been a war where the direct casualties have primarily been America's poor; America's minorities; and often, unfortunately, America's vulnerable, in terms of people with disease and addiction and mental health.

Cory Booker

#14. There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

Pete Du Pont

#15. To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

Cynthia Ozick

#16. In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.

Jane Hamilton

#17. High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

Jerry Rubin

#18. In America, the problems of poverty and low income, particularly for minorities, are disproportionately focused in the inner cities. Shining a spotlight on the businesses growing in these communities is proof that any community has the potential for entrepreneurship.

Michael Porter

#19. America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.

Colin Powell