Democracy Quote by Jacob Zuma

I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.

— Cecile Richards

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

— Ainsley Earhardt

The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in…

— Olympia Snowe

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

“Man did not enter into society to become worse than he was before, nor to have fewer rights than he had before, but to…

— Thomas Paine

“The thought of someone believing you deserve fewer rights because of who you are is depressing. But then you realize that, by doing what…

— Amber Ruffin

“It is unusual,” said Cristina, “for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.”

— Cassandra Clare

No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...

— Cecile Richards

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer…

— Nelson Mandela

“Make no mistake, to a significant degree we are all victims of religion because we all have fewer rights because of it.”

— David Silverman

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

— Thomas Paine

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

— Cornel West

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

When an unpopular minority is denied the right to marry, it is indeed the role of the courts to protect the rights of that…

— Margaret Hoover

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