Minorities Quotes

“Shall we judge a country by the majority or by the minority? By the minority surely.”

“The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is often conceived as a matter of remedying injustice and exclusiveness through doing justice to individual artists by allowing their work into the canon, which will thereby be more complete, but fundamentally unchanged.”

“Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm somebody's health or somebody asks me to please not smoke, I just go outside and smoke. But I do resent the way the nonsmoking mentality has been imposed on the smoking minority. Because, first of all, in a democracy, minorities do have rights. And, second, the whole pitch about smoking has gone from being a health issue to a moral issue, and when they reduce something to a moral issue, it has no place in any kind of legislation, as far as I'm concerned.”

“A minority may be right and a majority is always wrong.”

“A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.”

“It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.”

“The thing we have to fear in this country to my way of thinking is the influence of the organized minorities because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength but they give no expression of it.”

“Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.”

“The great liberal betrayal of this generation is that in the name of liberalism, communal rights have been prioritized over individual autonomy within minority groups. And minorities within minorities really do suffer because of this betrayal.”