Minorities Quotes

Minorities Quote of the day

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

In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.

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.

Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

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

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

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.

The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.

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?

Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.

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

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

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 [...]

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.

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

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.

The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

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

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

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.

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

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

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

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?

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.

Truth is for the minority.

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

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

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

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.

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

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.