Minority Quotes

537 Minority quotes by 425 unique authors

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… — H. L. Mencken
The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority. — James Madison
Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually… — William J. Murray
In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as… — Unknown Author
Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the… — Pat Robertson
The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens… — Ronald Reagan
There are some outstandingly qualified minority coaches, and one of the reasons I spoke out is that the ones I came in contact with all… — Grant Teaff
It's a legitimate point to debate. But it's part of the reality. It's happening, but it's also true they (looters) are in the distinct minority.… — Dan Rather
Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and… — William Allen White
Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough, in modern times… — Jean Jaures
From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the… — John Kenneth Galbraith
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it. — Carl T. Rowan
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… — Lysander Spooner
The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom,… — Henry Grady Weaver
... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole… — Plato
The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man… — Ludwig von Mises
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society… — Bella Abzug
In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus… — Peter Fenn
I want the President to look across the country and find the best man woman or minority that he can find — Trent Lott
The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless,… — Seamus Heaney
Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not… — Charlie Chaplin
I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that wanted a better… — Assata Shakur
As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone… — Peter Sloterdijk
I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed, gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority. — Barney Frank
I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting… — Vera Brittain

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