(788 quotes found)
“Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”
Marilyn Monroe
“Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles”
James D. Watson
“Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.”
Green Day
“In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.”
Jesse Jackson
“Everything great and intelligent is in the minority”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?”
Cher
“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
“A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.”
Carl T. Rowan
“Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.”
William Jennings Bryan