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

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102) — Cornel West

I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event. — Ron Ben-Israel

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. — Eric Berne

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny. — Joel Osteen

The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity. — Richard Dawkins

Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal freedom. — Newton Lee

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them. — Louis Armstrong

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority. — Diane Watson

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Tis the good reader that makes the good book. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one. — Jamie Kennedy

minority groups too often demand equal rights they haven't earned, — Anonymous

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. — James Madison

Whether a dandelion is a weed or a flower is entirely a matter of perspective. — Julia Tagliere

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. — Herbert Spencer

Every minute i spend talking to you is a mnute i could spend practicing the violin, and when you're a musical genius like me, every minute counts. — Lemony Snicket

The next day the government of South Africa announced that full civil rights would be restored to the white minority. — Arthur C. Clarke

The majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

In every area of our lives we get back what we send out — Marshall Sylver

After all the evidence is in
after you've run all the facts by everything you know
and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. — Christopher Moore

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

New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there. — Kristin Chenoweth

we never know what comes at end until we start moving..... — Bharat Singh