All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Niggerization is the result of oppression — and it doesnt just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized. – Florynce R. Kennedy
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. – Henry David Thoreau
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. – Norman Mailer
It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption. – Edward Bunyard
Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. – Nancy Chodorow
