Advancement Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the…

— Wendell Willkie

When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal.

— Chinese Proverbs

We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that in a…

— John J. Raskob

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

— Henry David Thoreau

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs…

— Henry David Thoreau

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

— James Madison

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

— Paul Robeson

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

— Robert Caro

We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal freedom.”

— Newton Lee

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

— James Madison