Tom Daschle Quotes

There is a qualitative difference between being a minority and being a majority. Majorities are stronger under psychological pressure because numbers count. But only if they are aware of it.

A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them

Minorities…are almost always in the right.

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

If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure.

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.

A privilege accruing to the majority ceases to be such.

If there was an Oppression Olympics, I would win the gold medal. I'm Palestinian, Muslim, I'm female, I'm disabled, and I live in New Jersey.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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.

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.