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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand
Vote
Rights
Oppression
Political
Minority
Earth
Minorities
Individual
Individual Rights
Smallest
Protect
Majority
Subject
Precisely
Public
Function
Away
Right
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
Rights
Minority
Earth
Those
Claim
Minorities
Individual
Individual Rights
Smallest
Deny
Cannot
Who
Defenders
Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
Bill Gates
Tough
Minorities
Layers
Make
Lot
Up
Leg
Discrimination
Get
The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.
Thomas Sowell
Time
Progress
Long
Country
Looking
Too
Promote
Minorities
Through
Leaders
Counterproductive
Polarizing
Attitudes
Disastrous
Overdue
Stop
Racial
Ethnic
Incentives
Many
Actions
Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits.
Henry Giroux
Life
War
People
Power
Considered
Range
Immigrants
Minorities
Quest
Unemployed
Endless
Predatory
War Zone
Low
Poor
Capital
Low-Income
Viewed
Whites
Exponentially
Who
Homeless
Disposable
Grown
Income
Now
Profits
Zone
Number
Liability
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
James K. Polk
Great
Constitution
Rights
Minorities
Object
Restrain
Just
We in the United States believe in the protection of minorities; we recognize the contributions that they can make and the leadership that they can provide; and we do not believe that any people - whether majority or minority, or individual human beings - are 'expendable' in the cause of theory or of policy.
Robert Kennedy
Leadership
People
Protection
Cause
Minority
Believe
States
Recognize
Minorities
Individual
Individual Human
Majority
Make
Policy
Provide
Contributions
Any
Human
Human Beings
Whether
Theory
Beings
United
United States
Our national political campaigns never stop. We seem convinced that majorities exist to impose their will with few concessions and that minorities exist to prevent the party in power from doing anything important. That's not how we were meant to govern.
John McCain
Political
Will
Power
Important
Party
National
Few
Our
Minorities
Seem
Prevent
Never
Never Stop
How
Govern
Doing
Impose
Were
Exist
Campaigns
Stop
Anything
Convinced
Meant
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.
Lysander Spooner
Saying
Rights
Ought
Please
Rule
Say
Minorities
Except
Allow
Equivalent
Them
Right
Tyrants and dictators have incited hatred against ethnic and religious minorities for centuries in order to consolidate power for themselves.
Bob Menendez
Hatred
Power
Tyrants
Consolidate
Religious
Minorities
Dictators
Order
Against
Centuries
Themselves
Ethnic
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
Wendell Phillips
Rights
Protection
Enemies
Few
Rich
Minorities
Protect
Exist
Governments
Friends
Loved
Many
Need
We should always care for the minorities and be attentive towards their welfare.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Welfare
Care
Minorities
Towards
Attentive
Always
Should
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.
Gwendolyn Brooks
You
People
Minority
Somebody
Else
Telling
Minorities
Term
Reference
Than
Them
Use
Less
That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.
Harold Washington
Day
Every Day
Progress
Made
Face
Every
Relative
Top
Way
Worse
Those
Minorities
Studies
Fallacy
America
Getting
Little
Show
Flies
Income
Assets
Things
I don't think that people generally realize what the motion picture industry has done to the American Indian, as a matter of fact, all ethnic groups. All minorities. All non-whites. People just simply don't realize. They take it for granted that that's the way people are going to be presented and that these cliches are just going to be perpetuated.
Marlon Brando
People
Matter
Picture
Think
Way
Indian
Minorities
Fact
Take
Generally
Simply
Industry
Cliches
Motion
Motion Picture
Motion Picture Industry
American
Done
Going
Just
Realize
Ethnic
Ethnic Groups
Granted
Groups
Presented
The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.
Mindy Kaling
Funny
You
Age
Racism
Minority
Parents
Every
Other
Minorities
See
About
Something
Almost
Between
Stereotyping
Know
Stories
Funniest
We must not only imagine a better future for women, children, and persecuted minorities; we must work consistently to make it happen - prioritizing humanity, not war.
Nadia Murad
Work
War
Future
Women
Humanity
Better
Consistently
Must
Minorities
Only
Better Future
Make
Make It Happen
Persecuted
Children
Happen
Imagine
It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.
Paul Wolfowitz
People
Other
Bad
Minorities
Bad Thing
Persecute
Very
Thing
Exterminate
I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people who were gay or lesbian or trans or people who aren't blonde haired and blue-eyed. I have short hair, and I am covered in tattoos. I like showing people that it's within their rights to be different.
Ruby Rose
Gay
Respect
Rights
People
School
Short Hair
Hair
Lesbian
Be Different
Minorities
Had
Like
Within
Am
Were
Bullied
Been
Covered
Blonde
Represent
Short
Tattoos
Blue-Eyed
Different
Wanted
Who
Showing
Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
Adam Cohen
Rights
Age
Women
Rights Issue
Minorities
Civil
Civil Rights
Issue
Discrimination
Against
Racial
Illegal
Compared
Second-Class
It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
Adam Cohen
Vote
Congress
Minorities
Constitutional
More
Area
Protecting
Than
Authority
Which
Act
Hard
Express
Right
Imagine
Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.
Ahmed Zewail
Syria
Ancient
Muslims
Religious
Minorities
Ten
Various
Civilization
Proud
Least
Denomination
Heir
Ethnic
Unique
Groups
Spectrum
Christians
If companies can refuse to provide coverage for women, what other objections to the Affordable Care Act will we see based on 'religious grounds'? For that matter, will 'religious freedom' be used as an excuse to discriminate against other minorities and disenfranchised groups across the board? Where will it end?
Al Sharpton
Freedom
Women
Matter
Care
Will
Other
Religious
Minorities
Religious Freedom
See
Objections
Excuse
Coverage
Provide
End
Discriminate
Affordable
Affordable Care Act
Disenfranchised
Refuse
Where
Against
Board
Across
Act
Used
Grounds
Companies
Groups
Based
Bourgeois values aren't just for white people. The irony is: Bourgeois values can help minorities get ahead.
Amy Wax
People
Values
White
Minorities
Bourgeois
Get
Irony
Just
Help
I would argue that electing Donald Trump would be a disaster for minorities; it would be a disaster when it comes to foreign policy.
Ana Kasparian
Would
Would-Be
Minorities
Argue
Disaster
Policy
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Democracy doesn't automatically safeguard women and minorities.
Anand Giridharadas
Democracy
Women
Minorities
Safeguard
Automatically
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