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

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life. — John F. Kennedy

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority. — Sigmund Freud

While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline ... When he is in the minority ... he is against it. — Anastas Mikoyan

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor. — James Madison

There are people that know the truth but stay silent & there are people that speak the truth but we don't hear them cuz they're the minority. — Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev

I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority — Killer Mike

Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans. — Edward Kennedy

Majorities, of course, start with minorities. — Robert Moses

The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society. — Peter Drucker

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic. — Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners. — Bill Dedman

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

Men in authority are now a threatened minority. — Ilana Mercer

Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled. — Pankaj Mishra

I have a love factor with the minorities. — John Catsimatidis

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform. — Thomas Jefferson

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world — Charles Spurgeon

When you cannot achieve a majority, it's a good idea to get rid of minority stakes. — Mathias Dopfner

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem. — Zora Neale Hurston

Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users. — Douglas Crockford

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. — Joseph Sobran

Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority. — Noam Chomsky

Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about. — Sarah-Patton Boyle

The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never. — George Bernard Shaw

High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America. — Jerry Rubin

It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections. — Antonin Scalia

It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts. — H.L. Mencken

Ethnic minorities were 10 times more likely than whites to eat at a table where they were the only representative of their race. — Rebekah Nathan

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority. — Tony Blankley

Nobody, in my lifetime, in either party, has reached out with a message of hope, growth and opportunity to minorities better than Jack Kemp. — Lawrence Kudlow

Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most. — Seth

We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts, — John F. Kerry

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression. — James K. Polk

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority. — Alf Landon

My comments concerning persons afflicted with AIDS as well as various minority groups have left people wondering if I am a racist. — John Rocker

I was warmly embraced by the Tea Party. They openly seek more minorities. — Tim Scott

Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious? — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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

Education and knowledge are the power of the minorities in this country — Philip Vera Cruz

The last thing the Province needs is a minority government — Hazel McCallion

It's weird for minorities even just to buy tickets to the ballet. We feel like it's not a part of our lives and we're not a part of that world. — Misty Copeland

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

"A minority of one" ... the definition of insanity. — George Orwell

Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank. — Linda Chavez

I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people. — Steven Biko

cultures are healed and rejuvenated by creative minorities led by creative leaders. — Mark Sayers

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. — Henry David Thoreau

I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power. — Wole Soyinka

There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority. — Hudson Taylor

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces. — Mikhail Bakunin

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that's how democracy works. — Jacob Zuma

You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life. — Anthony Scaramucci

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities. — Rand Paul

The most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny. — Anna Quindlen

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. — James K. Polk

The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry. — Shirley Chisholm

When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society. — Gordon Brown

I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse. — Lynn Swann

My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak. — Mahatma Gandhi

I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard. — M.M. Kaye

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one. — George Orwell

Faithful people have always been in a marked minority. — Arthur W. Pink

I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan. — Carol Leifer

The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not. — Aldo Leopold

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

I try to make fun of everyone as often as possible, especially minorities. — Chelsea Handler

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass. — Richard Lamm

I want companies who get federal contracts to hire more women and minorities from the local area. — Hilda Solis

The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next. — Gertrude Atherton

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading. — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. — Bill Gates

Truth is for the minority. — Baltasar Gracian

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority. — Mahatma Gandhi

Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities. — Peter Kropotkin

The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised. — S.J. Rozan

I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice, — Illmaculate

The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about. — Faye Wattleton

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities. — G.K. Chesterton

fringe groups representing national minorities who could imagine that somehow the destruction of states provided opportunities. — Timothy Snyder

Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there. — Gedde Watanabe

Always look out for the little noteslike minorities. — William Boughton

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans. — Freeman A. Hrabowski III

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue — Samuel Adams

Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it. — Roger Ebert

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice. — Lysander Spooner

Go watch (Minority Report) if you can bear Tom Cruise for that long — Kara Swisher

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority. — Albert Camus

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities. — Theodore Roosevelt

Acting alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change. — Hillary Clinton

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. — James Baldwin

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed — Lee Harvey Oswald

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me. — Henry A. Kissinger

I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America. — Condoleezza Rice

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority. — James Madison

Rich white guys. That's the true minority. — Cheech Marin

Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them. — Gloria Allred

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money. — Adam Smith

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

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