Minority Quotes

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

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

Let me say to you that truth has always lived with the minority; what the majority says at a given moment is usually wrong.

When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.

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

The American people need hope; they need to know there are Republicans in Congress that are willing to stand up and fight for them, regardless of being in a minority, regardless of having all odds against us, against me, or against anyone in Congress.

I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

The minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.