Top 1200 Majority And Minority Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations.

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust.

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.

Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.

Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.

The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

Instead of minority and majority politics, if we try and give the same rights to all, it is not polarisation. This is the core value of our Constitution.

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.

Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.

Our system of government in Israel has permitted minority groups and sectarian parties to force their way on the majority.

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

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.

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

Trump in particular was such an unpopular candidate, because he's so anti communities of color, and we're a minority majority state, are you kidding?

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.

Perhaps one could appoint three or four professional people specially concerned with the task of bridge building between the majority and the minority. Bridge building of this kind requires an effort from both sides. It's no good if the majority alone do it. The question is whether there is any response, whether people on the other side of the river also wish to try to build a bridge.

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.

But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter.

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

If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

I grew up in that minority. I grew up in the South, in Roswell, Georgia, and it was heavily white, Baptist, conservative. And the idea that somebody would come there and say those things that I said created an atmosphere where some people would walk out, and suddenly they weren't in the minority. For an hour and a half, they were the majority. So I would argue that it does need to be said.

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

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

If you're in the Senate and in the minority, you just get to give speeches and run around and raise money. If you're in the majority, you're under attack from the press every day.

When you cannot achieve a majority, it's a good idea to get rid of minority stakes.

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust

When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.

World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.

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

It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity.

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)

A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.

There is clearly a conflict within British Islam between a moderate majority that accepts the norms of Western democracy and a growing minority that does not.

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

If [the Conservatives] lose, we say, "Okay, we gotta change. We gotta improve, come back and win the next election." They [leftists] don't. When they lose and even when they win, because they know that they're in a numerical minority. But that numerical minority is a vast majority of pop culture and education environments. And so they just bully their way.

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

While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.

When you grow up as a minority in a majority culture, a lot of times, you're just trying to fit in.

Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that in America, which could afford a decent living for everyone, the comfortable majority is willing to condone the misery and abuse of a minority for an indefinite period, the exploitation by the majority becomes as repugnant as exploitation by an oligarchy, and democracy loses half its supposed superiority.

Electorally, the number of women who want to wear a burka is insignificant, yet it is important to defend such a minority against the tyranny of the majority.

I am willing to accept that there are women out there who say they have chosen to sell sex. But they are in the minority, and laws are there to protect the majority. In this case, the majority of women in prostitution want to get out, and suffer violence and exploitation. If there are women who have made a free choice, there are more who have had no choice.

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

It just seems like atheists are not included in the basket of diversity in America, which is odd because we are the biggest minority. That is a bigger minority than any other minority you can name.

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

the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.

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.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

It is no less the duty of the minority than a majority to endeavour to defend the country.

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.

The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.

I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed, gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.