The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority. — James Madison Copy Share Image
You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works. — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
The majority of Espanyol supporters are polite, but there are always rowdy minorities. — Gerard Pique Copy Share Image
In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded. — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one. — Ellis Paul Torrance Copy Share Image
The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry. — Shirley Chisholm 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
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
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
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by… — Harold Cruse Copy Share Image
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. — Susan Sontag 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
Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
There are some outstandingly qualified minority coaches, and one of the reasons I spoke out is that the ones I came in… — Grant Teaff Copy Share Image
I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
The other way is the multiverse way. That says that maybe the universe we are in is one of a very large… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Due to the major demographic changes we have gone through in the last few years in this country, we will be a… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz 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
Trent Lott has regained a position of leadership. He was the former majority leader who lost his post for racially insensitive commentary.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The question is: Do we have a shadow government? And if we do, who are those intelligent minority that is guiding us… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Within the model minority rhetoric, Asian Americans are represented as “good” minorities and African Americans are represented as “bad” minorities. Here, the… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you take away 'Schindler's List' and 'Saving Private Ryan', I like 'Minority Report' a lot. — Janusz Kaminski Copy Share Image
