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
Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not… — Tana French 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
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are… — James Madison Copy Share Image
On 18th September 2014, between the hours of 7am and 10pm, absolute sovereign power will lie in the hands of the Scottish… — Jim Sillars Copy Share Image
People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If we set the precedent of limiting the First Amendment, in order to protect the sensibilities of those who are offended by… — Edward Kennedy 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
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when… — Henry David Thoreau 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
I want the President to look across the country and find the best man woman or minority that he can find — Trent Lott Copy Share Image
A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
We must never again let America be led into a fratricidal war like the last two world wars, for the sake of… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
The best assurance the role of minorities can be given is that they will not be viewed as minorities but as citizens. — Burhan Ghalioun Copy Share Image
Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated. — Linda Sanchez Copy Share Image
The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor. — James Madison Copy Share Image
