Minorities Quotations | Page 4

It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined.

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

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

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel.

I don't think restaurants should refuse to serve minority people. They are quite tasty when prepared correctly.

...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough - that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of.

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

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

Truth is for the minority.

The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained.

As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.

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

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

Getting minorities into those jobs we're not doing everything we should be to point out the opportunities,

The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It is feared that if many H-bombs are used there will be universal death, sudden only for a minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration.

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

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.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

"A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

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.

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.

It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.

The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority.

A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?

The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.

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

Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.

I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

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.

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

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.

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

While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control.

We must overcome...all forms of racism. The problem of intolerance should be dealt with as a whole: every time a minority is persecuted and marginalized...the good of the whole society is in danger.

The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.

All rights are individual. We do not get our rights because we belong to a group. Whether it's homosexuals, women, minorities, it leads us astray. You don't get your rights belonging to your group. A group can't force themselves on anybody else. So there should be no affirmative action for any group.

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

Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.

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

A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.

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

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint - no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided...

Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they're not attracted to me... these minority women... they're the only women I can get cause everyone else is scared of me.

Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.

Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.