minorities

I want to be the white man's brother not his brother-in-law.

A woman who is found without her veil in some regions of Islam will it is reported raise her skirt to cover her face.

The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by how much kids long to see themselves in stories. To see their identities and perspectives__heir avatars__n the page. Not as issues to be addressed or as icons for social commentary, but simply as people who get to do cool things in amazing worlds. Yes, all the __ssue_ books are great and have a place in literature, but it's a different and wildly joyous gift to find yourself on the pages of an entertainment, experiencing the thrills and chills of a world more adventurous than our own.And when you see that as a writer, you quickly realize that you don't want to be the jerk who says to a young reader, __orry, kid. You don't get to exist in story; you're too different._ You don't want to be part of our present dystopia that tells kids that if they just stopped being who they are they could have a story written about them, too. That's the role of the bad guy in the dystopian stories, right? Given a choice, I'd rather be the storyteller who says every kid can have a chance to star.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

He's basically a good man. But he doesn't know me. Any more than he knew that girl that looked after your mother. He can't know me, not the way I know him. Maybe some of these Hawaiians can, or the Indians on the reservation. They've seen their fathers humiliated. Their mothers desecrated. But your grandfather will never know what that feels like.

The thing is we never needed anyone's consent to get married. What is happening is that the established powers are starting realize how much of jack asses they have looked like for not acknowledging our marriages and our human rights and we are starting to receive the rights we were always entitled too. Therefore, no one is "giving" or "allowing" us anything. We are simply and powerfully starting to reclaim what has always been ours. The moralistic patriarchy has made this a long and bloody battle, but the concept has always been simple and I am glad it is finally sinking in. We are here, we have always been here, we are not going anywhere, and trying to suppress us under false puritanical mores is not smart and will not make us go away. It's not just about the LGBTQ communities but all suppressed minorities. If you listen closely you can here the subtle but real shifting of the winds to a more enlightened and egalitarian society. It won't happen without work, and it won't happen without intelligence. Never stop learning, never stop growing, never be ashamed because you are different, and never stop knowing that there is power in community.

I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don__ hide within it.

In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.

In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.

After centuries of marginalization and neglect, we need to cast our own movements, projects, and ideas as a battle for relevancy in the face of historical manipulation, exploitation, and oppression. We need to fight, tooth and nail, for equity in all areas of social life. One point to make clear, ethnic and racial minorities are not looking for scraps or a handout from the old paternalistic system but an equitable, stable, and leveled playing field.

Man, sometimes you are clueless. You don__ even see what__ happening._ He perched himself on the arm of the couch so he could look down at Turk. __t__ not just about freaks. I mean, you__e the guy who thinks of ideas and all, but you__e missing it. You don__ even notice that the whole council is either black or Mexican. See, that__ what__ happening: it__ all these minorities hooked up with freaks.__he wheels in Turk__ mind began to turn slowly. But they were picking up speed. __amal__ with us and he__ black.___o? We use Jamal. He gets us into Albert__. You do what you gotta do. All I__ saying is, you and me, we__e normal people. We__e not black or queer or Mexican. And we__e the ones digging toilets. How come?__urk knew the answer: because they had failed in their attempt to take over. But he__ never thought about this new angle.__strid__ a normal white person,_ Turk argued halfheartedly. __o__ Sam.___am__ a freak, and I think he might even be a Jew,_ Lance said. His eyes were glittering. He was showing his teeth, grinning as he talked. It wasn__ a good look for him. __nd Astrid? She__ not even on the council anymore.

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

Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.

Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It__ time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love.

In addition, when a neighborhood's crime victims are portrayed as victims-sympathetically and without blame, as humans rather than as statistics-people living in other parts of the city are more inclined to support social services for the area, which in turn can reduce the crime rate.

If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.