Minority Quotes

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. Samuel Adams
Prevail Freedom Minority Men Setting Minds Rather Take Majority Does Tireless Keen
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
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. A. A. Milne
Happy Mind Minority Thinking Second-Rate Only Majority First-Rate
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Thomas Jefferson
Prevail Rights Oppression Law Mind Will Minority Too Possess Though Rightful Must Would Would-Be Cases Bear Sacred Equal Protect Majority Equal Rights Principle Which Reasonable Violate
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. James Madison
Great Respect Rights Minority Danger Majority May Republics Sufficiently
Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor. Richard Rohr
Health Racism Immigration Care Minority Country Transformation Group Christian Has-Been Echo Only Tend Consumerism True Attitudes Most Health Care Revealing Real Issues Been Cultural Dominant Any Poor Prejudices Believers Consciousness Slavery
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. Will Durant
Political Minority Machine Triumphs Divided Majority Because Against Acting United
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. Edmund Burke
Democracy Minority Citizens Cruel Most Majority Exercising Capable
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
We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity. John Trudell
Change Humanity People Political Minority Control Sick We Cannot System Out Economic Take Economic System Until Hands Political System Intention Cannot Social Land Meaning Then Chooses Social System
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. William Jennings Bryan
Day Will Minority One Day Never Majority Afraid Which Stand Right
There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure. Barbara Jordan
Work Hard Work People Path Minority Young Preparation Members Obstacle Cure Cannot Young People Poor Hard Who Groups
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us. Noam Chomsky
Truth Democracy History Class Training Events Minority Ideology Lying Hidden Distortion Seek Facilities Through Veil Provides Western Privileged Current Behind Leisure Which Interest Us Presented
We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has made enormous progress in race relations, and it is still the best place on Earth to be a minority. Condoleezza Rice
Best Progress Made Minority Country Enormous Relations Earth States Tensions Blind Course Still America Place Race Race Relations Racial United United States United States Of America
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. Eric Hoffer
Will Minority Free Dissent Only Feels Most Majority Impose
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. Gil Scott-Heron
Constitution Peace People Minority Everybody Find Inside About Outside Had Protesting Always Questions Trying Really Meant Meant To Be Who Radicals Apply
Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much as the majority. Lysander Spooner
Constitution People Minority Our Simply Majority Does Been Established Much Profess By The People
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes Minority Wrong Majority Always Right
Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people. Mario Balotelli
You Change People Minority Stupid Few Nothing Talk Stupid People Because Just Want Anything Them
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. Peter Kropotkin
Law Minority Men Society Harmful Others Beneficial Ruling Followed No Law Only Could Advantage Masses Terror Existed Mixture Them Customs Enforced Even
Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things. Wilbur Smith
You People Speak Political Censorship Mind Black Minority Think Unless Say Worst Arab Correctness Frankly Allowed Like Supposed Terrorist Political Correctness Lot Quite Quite Frankly Form Then Us Certain Your Certain Things Things
A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children. Alveda King
You Money Abortion Will Minority Say High Percent Area Taking Terminate Perhaps Majority Because However Clinics Children Want Poor Many Serve
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. Arthur C. Clarke
World Will Minority Beginning Mark Real Intelligent January Century Millennium Third
I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.' Carol Leifer
You Women Minority Take Advantage Say See More Fact Disadvantage Take Advantage Always Fewer Much Unique
The regressive Left ranks minority groups in a pecking order to compete in a kind of 'Oppression Olympics.' Gold medal goes to the most offended. Dave Rubin
Oppression Offended Minority Ranks Kind Most Left Goes Gold Gold Medal Order Groups Medal Compete Olympics Pecking
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