Minorities Quotes
595 Minorities quotes by 449 unique authors
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There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that…
— Bertrand Russell
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South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
— Thabo Mbeki
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The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and…
— Stephen Harper
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The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not…
— John Jay Hooker
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And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed
— Lee Harvey Oswald
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You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.
— Jacob Zuma
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The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign…
— Carol Moseley Braun
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The minority yields to the majority!
— Deng Xiaoping
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The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men,…
— Lysander Spooner
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French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in the…
— Unknown Author
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There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.
— Millard Fuller
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That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on…
— Robert Byrd
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It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost anyone who comes…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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The minority must have involvement in society. You can have different cultural practices that you accept. But if you are going to adopt democracy in…
— Sheila Jackson Lee
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Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against…
— Lion Feuchtwanger
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When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
— Andrew Sullivan
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I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.
— Steven Biko
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Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well,…
— G. H. Hardy
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Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect…
— Rich Mullins
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Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.
— Rose Bird
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Within the model minority rhetoric, Asian Americans are represented as “good” minorities and African Americans are represented as “bad” minorities. Here, the achievements of Asian…
— Jennifer Lee
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I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as…
— Bryan Singer
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Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the…
— Jan Schakowsky
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And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.
— Margaret Spellings
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I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.
— Lynn Swann
Who Wrote These Minorities Quotes
449 authors contributed a total of 595 Minorities Quotes, led by these top contributors: