We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Contrary to what we, the people, have been told, we are the power; we have supreme authority because we are the masses… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
Carolyn [Maloney] is the kind of legislator who, whether she's in the majority or the minority, whether her party is in the… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
What is reflected in the way this behavior is happening - in the way that minorities are treated, and the way that… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Affirmative action ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
Let's pretend six people live in your house. And you propose that only four people get to eat every day, and you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I read something in the paper that really confused me the other day. It said that 80 percent of the people in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Ridiculous that some people feel superior to the gay minority. They're the only couples you'll ever find poking around for ceramics and… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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
The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
We [on the left] have to be used to being a minority -- a small minority -- for some time to come.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There are people who are very greedy, there are people who don't care. But in my opinion, that is a minority. The… — Prem Rawat Copy Share Image
When I look at that record in light of the 1985 job application to the [Ronald] Reagan Justice Department, it's even more… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have to protect… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
These men were very much in the minority, but of course, being the 'Elect', they expected to be in a minority -… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We have a small faction, and they are a minority, who believe they are there to govern. Then there is the majority… — Tom DeLay 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 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
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
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
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
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