Charter Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.

— William O. Douglas

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

— James K. Polk

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

— Gloria Allred

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

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

— Lee Harvey Oswald

It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where…

— Keith Preston

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The…

— Anthony Kennedy

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

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

— Alf Landon

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose.…

— Abraham Lincoln

“I consider that in the current situation, it is unfitting for a representative of the people to be overzealous to the point of forgetting…

— Manuel Lempereur