Appeals Quote by Lord Acton

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

— Lord Acton

“It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve…

— Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

— William E. Gladstone

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

— Paul Robeson

What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege…

— John Bartholomew Gough

At the end of the day it doesn't matter which group is most oppressed or whether they are identically oppressed, what matters is that…

— Keith Boykin

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

One has to give minority groups a kind of reward, an emotional reward, that it is worthwhile assimilating to this particular majority group. And…

— Norbert Elias

The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one…

— Ludwig von Mises

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

— Henry David Thoreau