Minorities Quotes

595 Minorities quotes by 449 unique authors

Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is… — Lucy Parsons
The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent… — Susan Sontag
Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why… — Hillary Clinton
What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that… — John Bartholomew Gough
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of… — Mark Twain
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence… — Vladimir Lenin
"A minority of one"... the definition of insanity. — George Orwell
The only feasible solution is a political reconciliation... Mr. President, the time is now to put pressure on the Iraqi government to change. That is… — Mike Coffman
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.... — Lord Acton
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority. — Eric Hoffer
It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most… — Mark Twain
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. — Ayn Rand
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for… — Ayn Rand
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. — Herbert Spencer
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority… — William E. Simon
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point… — Abraham Lincoln
Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to… — William Howard Taft
I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ...… — Freeman Dyson
Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different... More terrible than… — Pat Robertson
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize… — Albert Einstein
Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but… — Henry David Thoreau
The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry. — Shirley Chisholm
A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it,… — James Madison

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