Minorities Quotes
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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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.
— Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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
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 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
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
Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.
— Lysander Spooner
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
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
