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
I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. — Alveda King Copy Share Image
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness… — George Eliot 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
George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that… — Josh Brolin 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
“Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“The majority never has right on its side. Never I say! That is one of the social lies that a free, thinking… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
Those of us who grew up in the '50s and '60s, we had the dream that this could be turned around, and… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that, in some senses, could be thought of as traditionally… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts, — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
There are some of us who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The people in Arab countries are now speaking out and asking many questions about human rights, minorities, religion, democracy, "the other," and… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
The Perkins Bar has always demonstrated a commitment to the community and excelled in service not only to the minority community, but… — Kevin Cook Copy Share Image
I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might… — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
