Minorities Quotes · Page 8

I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it's their…

— Richard Leakey

[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to…

— Laurence Tribe

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like…

— John Lennon

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

The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of…

— Hugo Chavez

The relative lack of power of certain minority groups and the fear they're feeling in the wake of Donald Trump's election, I…

— Megyn Kelly

America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring…

— George Will

If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If…

— Garth Nix

I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could…

— Bill Ayers

In my real life I had to confront the sins of the father, but it's also a symbolic journey - a social,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

We [on the left] have to be used to being a minority -- a small minority -- for some time to come.…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say,…

— Sloane Crosley

Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than…

— Philip Zimbardo

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world

— Charles Spurgeon

Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.

— Thomas Jefferson

I just don't understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can't figure it. I don't understand. If you're…

— Cher

It is important to remember when making jokes about women, that they are not a minority. They weren't captured on another continent…

— P. J. O'Rourke

What may be possible for a minority of humankind, albeit at great cost, simply cannot work for the humankind. Our kind of…

— Jonathon Porritt

Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions…

— Lysander Spooner

I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are…

— Gil Scott-Heron

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

— Bill Gates

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation,…

— Ray Bradbury

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the…

— Clarence Thomas

All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and…

— Gabrielle Union

There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated…

— John Henrik Clarke