Minority Protection Quotes

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

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

One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.

Christians, Yezidis, and other religious minorities have every right to remain in their ancestral homelands.

I consider the veto power, therefore, given by the Constitution to the Executive of the United States solely as a conservative power, to be used only first, to protect the Constitution from violation; secondly, the people from the effects of hasty legislation where their will has been probably disregarded or not well understood, and, thirdly, to prevent the effects of combinations violative of the rights of minorities.

In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.

Confidentially the State Department is in a bind. Our task would be simple if the reports of the atrocities could be declared untrue or even exaggerated but the evidence, alas, is irrefutable and the Secretary of State wants to avoid giving the impression that while the United States is willing to intervene actively to protect its commercial interests, it is not willing to move on behalf of the Christian minorities.

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

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.

The prohibitions of the Constitution were put in place precisely to prevent majority opinion from ruling certain areas of life.

The notion that a person's constitutional rights may be subject to a majority vote is itself anathema.

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

It does look like it's almost like South Africa to this extent: You have a white - what's the word - feeble minority. It's losing its majority status. And it says, the Republican Party, 'We can only get so many white votes. So, we got to reduce the votes of others.' It does look that way. Only the - maybe you're non-partisan, but only Republicans have pushed this in these 31 states. No Democratic legislature. You gotta look at the pattern here. You talk about profiling. I'm sorry, Republicans do this stuff.

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

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust.

The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.

Syria, for all its problems, at least has a constitution that guarantees equal protection of citizens. Around the world, we have seen that this is essential where Christians are a minority and are not protected.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

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.

All over the globe the U.S. is fighting to protect and develop at least a minority who consume what the U.S. majority can afford.