Minorities Quotes

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  It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

  Samuel Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Freedom

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

  Steven Biko

  People, Facts, Should

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• Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Prejudice

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

  Zach Braff

  Thinking, People, Restaurants

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Time, Truth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.174

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• All progress comes from the creative minority.

  George Gilder

  Creative, Progress

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.171, Regnery Publishing

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• I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

  Jodi Picoult

  Majority

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.

  Julian Barnes

  Art, Reading, Skills

  "Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Courage, Learning, Ideas

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• No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Rights, Long, Democracy

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.401, Best Books on

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• Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Inspiring, Creativity

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.30, Beacon Press

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• Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Speak Your Mind, Transcendentalism

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• It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

  Lord Acton

  Freedom, Equality, Democracies Have

  Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom: Great Event”, p.9, VM eBooks

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• the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Law, Majority Rule

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Liberty, Majority

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.100, Penguin

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• It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.

  Raymond B. Fosdick

  Keys, Different, Humans

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

  James Madison

  Respect, Rights, Majority

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Majority, Literature, Always Wrong

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• The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

  Lord Acton

  Country, Freedom, Equality

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Bill Gates

  Legs, Layers, Tough

  "Bill Gates invites us all to read Jared Diamond's The World Until Yesterday" by Liz Bury, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2013.

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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

  Philosophy, Humor, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.125, Penguin

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• A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.

  Leo Baeck

  Blessing, Thinking, Compelled

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• Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Democracy, Important, Denial

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  In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, Exercise, Democracy

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.186

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• Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Intelligent, Intelligence

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