Causes Quote by Paul Robeson

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

— Bob Kerrey

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

When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal.

— Chinese Proverbs

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

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

— Henry David Thoreau

A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.

— Leo Baeck

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

— Lord Acton

Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of…

— John Bartholomew Gough

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

— Thomas Jefferson

“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