Minority
The state of being a minor, or under age.
State of being less or small.
The smaller number; -- opposed to majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.
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Minority Quotations
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson
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
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
Samuel Adams
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
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
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
James Madison
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
George Bernard Shaw
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke
Minority Translations
minority in Dutch is minderheids-
minority in German is Minderheit
minority in Swedish is minoriteter
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