#minority

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#majority-v-minority #philosophy #mankind

The review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciary Committee were responsible for the invitation of 1/3 of the witnesses who appeared. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#bipartisan #committee #conducted #extremely #invitation

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#minority #oppression #race-relations #responsibility #sexual-orientation

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#human #human rights #including #kind #minority

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#believe #color #comes #crosses #killing

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#degree #freedom #going #majority #matter

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

#ever #fact #history #homeowners #in fact

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#experience #live #lives #majority #may

Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority. ↗

— William Hague

#even #find #indefensible #isolated #minority

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids. ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#died #eyes #father #filtered #her