Minority Quotes
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A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.
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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.
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We all met there, there were plenty of talks. We all look at each other and believe there are too many limitations. All you can do right now is a financial minority investment.
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We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.
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The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.
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Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority is, in practice, to stigmatize them. Nuns are rarely classed as deviants for the same reason, although if they obey their vows they clearly differ very significantly from the great majority of people.
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We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.
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The fact that I am a Filipino actor playing a Filipino role is crazy. Filipinos are the second largest Asian minority in the United States, and we're hardly represented in the media and on television.
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We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.
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Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
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I can say it's true that if I want to understand a certain minority, I need to meet them and get to know them.
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The minority must bow to the majority.
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Why, since people must outnumber the minority that comprises the State and its oppressive forces, have they submitted so meekly to it?
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I was always a champion of the minority, of the underdog.
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And one day our grandkids will ask us, 'What was it like to be a minority?'
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While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.
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In caving to an extremist minority that represents no one but itself, you acknowledge its power.
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Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies are on the rise, and many minority protests that I have witnessed say, in effect, “Do not racially profile us, we are Americans.
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Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.
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Success or failure in minority education means success or failure for the U.S.
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Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.
