Minority Quotes

537 Minority quotes by 425 unique authors

The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the… — Walker Evans
A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority. — Alf Landon
It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts. — H. L. Mencken
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… — H. L. Mencken
It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite… — Naomi Klein
I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me. — Henry A. Kissinger
If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition,… — Vince Cable
Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority… — Ehud Olmert
Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority. — Harlan F. Stone
We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has… — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up… — Stephanie Coontz
In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white,… — Neal Boortz
The Perkins Bar has always demonstrated a commitment to the community and excelled in service not only to the minority community, but to the community… — Kevin Cook
It is somewhat perplexing that fellow Republicans would attack a popular conservative governor of a very conservative state whose overwhelming re-election proved a conservative philosophy… — Karen Hughes
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical… — Abraham Robinson
If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or nonhuman, we must first come to terms with the… — Alan Watts
I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that. — Harold Ford, Jr.
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society. — Vladimir Lenin
In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the… — Vladimir Lenin
Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak. — Robert Green Ingersoll
If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is… — William Eckhardt
If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size,… — Margaret Cho
Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause. — Paul Robeson
Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but… — Mario Balotelli
I think all minority audiences watch movies with hope. They hope they will see what they want to see. That's why nobody really sees the… — Arthur Laurents

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