Minority Quotes

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

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.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.

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.

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.

The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.

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

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

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 dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

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.'

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.

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies.

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.