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Minorities Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a…
- 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,…
- To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights,…
- Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.
- Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power,…
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