Minority Views Quotes

The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary is it that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally.

I was part of the peace movement and part of the civil rights movement. You know what we heard? 'The majority of people don't support you.'

In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the protection of the First Amendment.

Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.

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

Hillary [Clinton] was selected by only 8 percent of the population. [Donald] Trump, by only 7 percent

Our Founders worried a lot about the tyranny of the majority. They designed our form of government to provide a loud voice for minority points of view. They hated the idea of unilateral power. And wanted to force advocates and policy makers, through structure and process, to compromise.

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

The belief that women should control our own bodies may be a majority belief, but the minority that believes otherwise is against not only safe and legal abortions but contraception and even sex education.

If we set the precedent of limiting the First Amendment, in order to protect the sensibilities of those who are offended by flag burning, what will we say the next time someone is offended by some other minority view, or by some other person's exercise of the freedom the Constitution is supposed to protect?

I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more subconscious than unconscious, stemming to a very great extent from the tendency of Americans to conform...not to deviate or depart from an orthodox point of view.

I think we, the Republicans, have been mistyped as unfriendly to minorities and not receptive to minority views.

Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.

In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.

Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

There are not too many people with an opinion I care for.

I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.

Minorities…are almost always in the right.