Minority Quotes

We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.

One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.

Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.

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

Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied their rights. At the same time, democracy also requires that the rights of political and other minorities be safeguarded.

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.

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

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.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but is irresistable when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

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

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

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

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

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

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

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.