Protect Minorities Quotes

#1. Individual rights are not subject to a public vote. A majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. The political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities, and the smallest minority on earth is the individual.

Ayn Rand

#2. The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#3. I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint - no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided ...

Richard M. Nixon

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

James Madison

#5. A country should be judged by how it treats its minorities. To the extent it protect them, it stands for the ennobling values of empathy and compassion, for justice rooted, not in might, but in human equality, and for civilization instead of savagery.

Mohsin Hamid

#6. Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Wendell Phillips

#7. You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but ... It is beautiful.

Brian Cox

#8. Were I to spend my life commenting on the world that I see, I would never see the world.

Reif Larsen

#9. All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

Frank Herbert

#10. You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.

William J. Clinton

#11. SILICON VALLEY WAS THE BIRTHPLACE OF LORD MACHINA,

Julie Kagawa

#12. [The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government.

Laurence Tribe

#13. The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained.

Ayn Rand

#14. God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.

Ellen G. White

#15. Hope is still ahead of you - but someday it will be behind you. That's really the point of children, to have someone to pin hope to.

Edward Bunker

#16. The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of African-Americans, as well as Latinos and other disadvantaged minorities,

Andre Carson

#17. The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

Ronald Reagan

#18. A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

George Herbert

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

Anna Quindlen

#20. The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

Charles Horton Cooley

#21. If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.
[Freedom of the Park, Tribune, 7 December 1945]

George Orwell