Minorities Quotes

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

I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority.

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

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

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.

I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

We must overcome...all forms of racism. The problem of intolerance should be dealt with as a whole: every time a minority is persecuted and marginalized...the good of the whole society is in danger.

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.

Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.

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

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

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

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don’t know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.

If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built.

I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation

Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough, in modern times at least, to make a revolution. The cooperation of a majority, and a large majority too, is needed.

Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.

We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.

I would in fact tend to have more confidence in the outcome of a democratic decision if there was a minority that voted against it, than if it was unanimous... Social psychology has amply shown the strength of this bandwagon effect.

History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.

The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.

If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

Truth is for the minority.

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.

Education and knowledge are the power of the minorities in this country