The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. – Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton
A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority. – Leo Baeck
Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is always the minorities that hold the key of progress. – Raymond B. Fosdick
My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities. – Mahatma Gandhi
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. – Eric Hoffer
A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. – Henrik Ibsen
The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don – Henrik Ibsen
Niggerization is the result of oppression — and it doesnt just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized. – Florynce R. Kennedy
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. – Walter Lippmann
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. – Norman Mailer
How a minority, reaching majority, seizing authority, hates a minority! – Leonard H. Robbins
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
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. – Susan Sontag
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. – Henry David Thoreau
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. – Woodrow Wilson
