Aim Quote by Cornel West

I believe that open criticism of any institution is necessary in a democracy, to safeguard the constitutional order.

— Prashant Bhushan

The aim of the Constitutional treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable...The Constitution aimed to be…

— Karel De Gucht

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…

— William Howard Taft

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand…

— Robert Byrd

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

— Jacob Zuma

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

— Thomas Jefferson

[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the…

— Laurence Tribe

Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.

— Thomas Jefferson

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

— Ayn Rand

What about the majority? I'm so tired of protecting the rights of the minority. What about the rest of the country?

— Ainsley Earhardt

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

— James Madison

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political…

— Ayn Rand