Quotes about minorities




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

Baeck, Leo on minorities    Share


"Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on minorities    Share

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on minorities    Share

"It is always the minorities that hold the key of progress."

Fosdick, Raymond B. on minorities    Share

"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

Hoffer, Eric on minorities
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"A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong."

Ibsen, Henrik on minorities    Share

"Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized."

Kennedy, Florynce R. on minorities    Share

"In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority."

Lippmann, Walter on minorities    Share

"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."

Mailer, Norman on minorities    Share

"Beware the tyranny of the minority."

Proverb, Latin on minorities    Share

"How a minority, reaching majority, seizing authority, hates a minority!"

Robbins, Leonard H. on minorities    Share

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on minorities
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"Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony."

Sontag, Susan on minorities    Share

"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."

Thoreau, Henry David on minorities    Share

"You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on minorities    Share

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