Yesterday in a 25 to 24 vote, Republicans welcomed back Lott back into their leadership and named him minority whip. That is… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“The Tuskegee experiments are certainly a good reason for ongoing mistrust, but it is important not to overlook mistrust that is generated… — Clare Xanthos Copy Share Image
Conservatism's not the answer. The Republican Party has to reach out, moderate and modify its views to be able to accommodate radical… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard. — M.M. Kaye Copy Share Image
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
We must overcome...all forms of racism. The problem of intolerance should be dealt with as a whole: every time a minority is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule… — Henry Grady Weaver Copy Share Image
The Bundists did not wait for the Messiah, nor did they plan to leave for Palestine. They believed that Poland was their… — Marek Edelman Copy Share Image
In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
“There are always those who aspire to deprive minorities of their equality and civil rights. They NEVER sleep – they wait for… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even… — William J. Murray Copy Share Image
Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it,… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
There are also people that still choose to support racist rhetoric because they feel white dominance in America is slipping through their… — Christian Picciolini Copy Share Image
We focus on that really repulsive minority of racists. But then there's a continuum that goes all the way to, you know,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
But when General Ziaul Haq introduced the strict blasphemy - 295 A, B, C - of Pakistan's penal code, then from 1986… — Shahbaz Bhatti Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and… — Florence King Copy Share Image
This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when you have a story of minorities in America, it's always this super, oppositional thing. It's segregation, it's… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much,… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority. — Amy Richards Copy Share Image
It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority. — George Lopez Copy Share Image
Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
I admire identity politics for raising the fact that there are terrible and constant microaggressions against all minorities. — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As somebody who happens to be gay, I particularly resent that minorities are being encouraged to be fragile and bitter. — Andy Ngo Copy Share Image
Mrs. Clinton's policies, which are an echo of Barack Obama's policies, are gonna continue to wreak havoc and damage on America's minorities. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on… — Rich Galen Copy Share Image