Democracy Quote by Jacob Zuma

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

— Lee Harvey Oswald

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

— Robert Caro

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

— Chinese Proverbs

My starting point is that I've been a minority in this country for my whole life. I have understood that you have to fight…

— Humza Yousaf

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

— Albert Camus

With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I…

— Richard Benjamin

Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.

— R. Lee Wrights

Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically…

— Nelson Mandela

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

— Olof Palme

You have ceded the concept of your own rights. You've converted them into something you get as a revocable privilege from the government, something…

— Edward Snowden

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

— Alf Landon