Minorities Quotes - Page 2

The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.

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.

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.

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.

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

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.

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

Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough, in modern times at least, to make a revolution. The cooperation of a majority, and a large majority too, is needed.

I would in fact tend to have more confidence in the outcome of a democratic decision if there was a minority that voted against it, than if it was unanimous... Social psychology has amply shown the strength of this bandwagon effect.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

Truth is for the minority.

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.

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

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

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

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.