Minority Quote by Mohammad MUSTAFA

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

— James Madison

“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

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

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

— James K. Polk

Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution, including James…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— James K. Polk

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

— Diane Watson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much as the…

— Lysander Spooner

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

— Jean O'Leary

Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that…

— Robert Byrd