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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.