Minorities Quotes

595 Minorities quotes by 449 unique authors

While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority… — Conrad Black
Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible… — Ludwig von Mises
Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied… — Nelson Mandela
Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT. — Hillary Clinton
Acting alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change. — Hillary Clinton
In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out… — Freeman Dyson
And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and employment gaps that… — Unknown Author
Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing… — Shelby Steele
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All rights are individual. We do not get our rights because we belong to a group. Whether it's homosexuals, women, minorities, it leads us astray.… — Ron Paul
I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so… — Eddie Bernice Johnson
While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few.… — Pope Francis
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being… — Immanuel Wallerstein
We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that in a thoroughly… — Unknown Author
We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically… — Leonardo DiCaprio
At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that… — James Madison
War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government… — Randolph Bourne
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for… — Mark Twain
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are,… — James A. Baldwin
A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat… — Christopher Isherwood
In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have… — Walter Lippmann
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by… — Henry David Thoreau
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a… — Walter Lippmann
The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority. — Tessa Jowell

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