Andrew Sullivan Quotes

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

Minorities…are almost always in the right.

Let us consider a more concrete example of just and unjust laws. An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.

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.

In today's Britain, the weakest among us are often assumed to be minority communities. In fact, the weakest are those minorities-within-minorities for whom the legal right to exit from their communities' constraints amounts to nothing before the enforcement of cultural and religious shaming.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

At times those who won, 51 percent of the population claim the right to ride roughshod over the other 49 percent.

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon ... that it is readily regarded as something natural, even by its victims.

How a minority, reaching majority, seizing authority, hates a minority.

The history of most countries has been that of majorities—mounted majorities, clad in iron, armed with death, treading down the tenfold more numerous minorities.

The minority makes every effort to delay business.

All those who defend freedom are bound as their first duty to be the champions of minorities, and the danger of allowing the majority, which holds the power of the State, to interfere at its will is that the interests of the minority will be disregarded and crushed out under the omnipotent force of a popular vote

It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight.

Victimhood, in the intersectional way of seeing the world, is akin to sainthood; power and privilege are profane.

Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

Society is better off without certain people.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.