There are certain standards, like the protection of minorities and the improvement in their lives that have to be improved now. — Martti Ahtisaari Copy Share Image
The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions;… — Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora Copy Share Image
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Police departments are under enormous political pressure to hire based on race, despite existing efforts to recruit minorities, on the theory that… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university,… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline… When he is in the minority... he is against it. — Anastas Mikoyan Copy Share Image
Were anyone wondering how Sen. Harry Reid intended to manage life in the minority, it took one day of the 114th Congress… — Kimberley Strassel Copy Share Image
We have begun a throw away culture. This tendency is seen on the level of individuals and whole societies; and it is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous, and cruel, as any king or senate possessed… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Even before winning its majority, Harper's Republican-styl e Conservative party - well to the right Canada's traditional Progressive Conservative Party - managed… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
You could protect a religious minority against gays and lesbians. Or you could protect gays and lesbians against a religious minority. And… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“The report said: ‘ . . . migration of minorities continues unabated . . . Minorities today find that they are seldom… — Sanjoy Hazarika Copy Share Image
The plain message conveyed by the new administration is that George W Bush's America is a Christian nation, and that non-Christians are… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“Man, sometimes you are clueless. You don’t even see what’s happening.” He perched himself on the arm of the couch so he… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“In an intellectual battle, you do not need to convert everyone. History is made by minorities - or, more precisely, history is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Certainly here in the U.S., we've had fundamentalist movements that have taken very critical and hostile attitudes toward immigration and the assimilation… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
First of all, let me give my comments on the blasphemy law. This law was introduced by the military dictator General Ziaul… — Shahbaz Bhatti Copy Share Image
The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It should be very normal to see people of different races and ethnic minorities playing different parts. — Karla Crome Copy Share Image
It's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that the… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there… — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It's made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this… — Cristina Saralegui Copy Share Image
To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
