#minor

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda. ↗

— Strom Thurmond

#deserve #greatest #instead #minority #nation

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

#few #friends #governments #loved #many

There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove. ↗

— Mark Pincus

#built #comfort #companies #full #given

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#combinations #consists #constructing #infinite #invention

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. ↗

— James K. Polk

#great #just #majorities #minorities #object

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#america #arts #culture #deeply #doing

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

#earth #function #individual #individual rights #majorities

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets. ↗

— Karel Reisz

#films #minority #sell #simply #tickets

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#forty #germans #important #machines #minority

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution. ↗

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#against #amending #any #believe #constitution