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Minorities Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of…
- The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. Liberty is not…
- It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.
- We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small…
More Minorities Quotes
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. — Lord Acton
- It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the… — Samuel Adams
- The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us… — Glenn Beck
- Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the… — John O. Brennan
- When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else. — Gwendolyn Brooks
- Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less… — Gwendolyn Brooks
- Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day… — William Jennings Bryan
- In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. — Edmund Burke
- I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their… — Sherman Alexie
- Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. — Thomas Carlyle
- 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