Underrepresented Groups Quotes

As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading.

Governments can make a greater effort to encourage computer science education, especially among young girls, racial minorities, and other groups whose perspectives have been underrepresented in AI.

The big problem is that a lot of Americans, whether they are underrepresented minorities or from rural areas, do not know about career opportunities in the tech industry because they may not have had role models who are part of this field or learned about STEM in school.

If you're not hiring from some groups of the population, then you're obviously missing out.

You can't be what you can't see.

Maybe I bring people into that pop world who don't usually find themselves there because there's not enough stuff for them to get excited about otherwise.

I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.

It's my mission in life to put people on the screen who don't get normally represented.

Do I have to see movies and television about the English throne or the Holocaust every year? There are multiple multi-million dollar movies with the same backdrop. But our Holocaust - meaning Latino - aren't ever told.

The people we need to hear from most are the ones who make themselves heard least - except, of course, on Election Day.

Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.

I'm a believer that we should support various forms of representation because they clearly resonate with unheard groups of people, and for such a huge project like 'Riverdale,' this kind of representation is fundamentally important.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is 'not ready' to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start.

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

I may have no idea what I'm talking about," I said, a little ticked off now. "But we're all a part of a minority waiting for a majority to pull their heads out of their asses.

World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.

I don't think there's been many chances for people to see a black, gay, pop experience and that's what I want to have with my shows moving forward.

In reality, there are tons of unrepresented voices that we don't see in comedy.

If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that.

In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.

Really go out of your way to hire women, people of color, homosexuals, transgendered people - go out of your way to hire them.

Michael J. Copps, acting FCC chairman, has denounced the lack of racial and gender diversity in the broadcast industry as 'a shameful state of affairs.' Unsurprisingly, his proposed corrective is to force the transfer of station ownership to greater numbers of minorities, who are statistically more likely to carry liberal talk shows.

There are not a lot of young African-American guys who come through the video room. I wanted to make sure I was one of those guys, not only to live up to that standard but almost make a breakthrough for young African-American men. There is a pathway for you through the video room as well, but you have to be willing to do the work.