Minority Quotes

537 quotes by 435 authors

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. — 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 and made 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 world to be… — 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 than anybody else. — Gwendolyn Brooks
Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority. — William Jennings Bryan
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. — Edmund Burke
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 the west. But… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president… — Graydon Carter
In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of… — Dick Cheney
If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could… — Cher
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. — Arthur C. Clarke
If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is… — Hillary Clinton
America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of… — Harold Cruse
When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in… — John Howard Griffin
This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to… — Tom Robbins
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

Who Wrote These Minority Quotes

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