It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I want the state to take away people's guns. But I don't want the state to use methods against gun owners that… — Aryeh Neier Copy Share Image
Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Rather than following through on the proven crime and violence prevention techniques that work, we are back to tough-talking sound byte policies… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
What’s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn’t any difference between people —well, like you were saying about minorities,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
In real life people fart, in the movies, people don't. Why not? Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War was taking place, which was raising all sorts of questions in the United States, and it was forcing Asian-Americans… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless.… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The Western press has always insisted that India was Pakistan's enemy and vice versa, that the Hindus were against the Muslims and… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
We need to be protecting American citizens who are here, out of work, and hurting today-minorities, Blacks and Whites and all colors… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Holocaust Memorial Day is intended as an inclusive commemoration of all the individuals and communities who suffered as a result of the… — Jack Straw Copy Share Image
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Tom Walls' buddies remain an isolated minority, except during times of economic or social stress, when a mass following develops to blame… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
The thing about frontiers, it allows the individuals who are best, whether they're men or women or minorities or whatever, to step… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
In my life I do look up to actors, at my age I ask myself, who else is playing interesting parts at… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
As America is transformed from a 90 percent European American nation, as it was in the 1960s, to one where we will… — David Duke Copy Share Image
A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority… — Dennis Altman Copy Share Image
What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe… — William Taylor Copy Share Image
Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is this huge Roma problem in Europe. There are a lot of Romas who are discriminated against in countries like the… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I'm in a real minority as far as having really supportive parents in regards to the arts. They never batted an eye… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
I would like to say, for the record, that I am in favor of using more American Indians and other minorities in… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
