Constitution Quote by James K. Polk

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.

— Gloria Allred

“The purpose of our Constitution—especially the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal-protection guarantee—is to protect minority rights even when, or especially when, they are unpopular.”

— Michelle Alexander

It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections.

— Antonin Scalia

Amendment of the constitution is the minority's affair. Constitutions are invented to protect the rights of suppressed groups.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no…

— Lysander Spooner

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

— James K. Polk

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

— James Madison

It has always been a sign of desperation that racial-preference supporters argue that the government can honor the constitutional mandate not to discriminate on…

— Heather Mac Donald

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

— Wendell Phillips

It's important that if one opposes discriminatory speech, one opposes all kinds. That is that one decides on a principle that it will include…

— Judith Butler

Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution…

— Colin Powell