47 Underrepresented Quotes

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Famous Underrepresented Quotes

We are less when we don't include everyone. — Stuart Milk

All of the young people - the artsy people, people who get overlooked because they're weird or they don't have hype around them - need to get some shine. — ASAP Rocky

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — Thomas Jefferson

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? — Walter Dean Myers

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. — Lord Acton

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed. — Sayings

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice. — Sonia Sotomayor

When you consider the overpopulation in this world ... homosexuality is completely underrated in this society. — Doug Stanhope

Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority. — James Madison

We have the Internet of Everything but not the inclusion of everyone. — Ajaypal Singh Banga

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda. — Strom Thurmond

A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today. — Dolores Huerta

A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority. — Leo Baeck

We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo and not talked about and dealt with. — Madonna Ciccone

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk. — Jennifer Doudna

Short Underrepresented Quotes

  • Latinos are a vital but underrepresented force in this country. — Ana Ortiz
  • Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. — Michael Caine
  • Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard. — Andre Holland
  • Women's music is underrepresented. — Beth Anderson
  • Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film. — Stef Penney
  • Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped. — Emma Watson

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More Underrepresented Quotes

I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write. — Danai Gurira

Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the valve matter? What matters here?' - such an underrepresented question in math curriculum. — Dan Meyer

People with disabilities are the largest minority in the world, and we are the most underrepresented in entertainment. — Maysoon Zayid

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us. — Robert Klein

When people think of diversity, they think people of color, but it also means women, who are severely underrepresented as directors, writers and producers. — Eva Longoria

The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema. — Christian Bale

You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented. — Claire Danes

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre. — Christopher Eccleston

When it comes to diversity, women are still underrepresented in so many different places, but one place we're not underrepresented is we hold a majority of the household income, and we control that. — Jessica Alba

I don't think it serves any minority or underrepresented group to be coddled. Because the world won't coddle you. So I actually believe in tough love, hard truths, black and white. — Jessica Alba

I don't know why women would think they would be underrepresented in that 40 per cent, and I do not know why they think they would be underrepresented in that 60 per cent either. Because, any community that has their traditional leader in the area, one would expect that, among the people, they would want to ensure that this committee, that 60%, is properly representative. — Thabo Mbeki

We have so few women in Congress. We are so underrepresented and whether we like it or not, we are in area - in an era that still the women, the handful that are there, have two jobs: they represent the constituency that they're from, and they also represent the women of the nation or the state or sometimes as Maloney has done, of the world. — Eleanor Smeal

Roger Ebert was such a champion of underrepresented filmmakers. He was a very big deal to me. It shows the power of critics. People who write about film, like you, can really affect the confidence of a young filmmaker. He did that for me, so it was such a pleasure to have an opportunity to talk about Roger in the movie. — Ava DuVernay

Women are making strides in many areas and women have mentored and supported me along the way. I think that women are underrepresented behind the camera as directors. — Nina Jacobson

Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is underrepresented are those "metaphotographers" who can make sense of the billions of images being made and can provide context and authenticate them. We need curators to filter this overabundance more than we need new legions of photographers. — Fred Ritchin

What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. — Michael Caine

I'm passionate about mobilizing young Latinos to get to the polls, so I'm involved with Voto Latino. Latinos are a vital but underrepresented force in this country. — Ana Ortiz

I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented. — Danai Gurira

Women are still chronically underrepresented in U.S. politics at both a local and national level... But there is one city where those three top jobs will be filled by women for the next year. And that city is Washington D.C. — Chuck Todd

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