Minorities Quotes

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

A resolute minority has usually prevailed over an easygoing or wobbly majority whose prime purpose was to be left alone.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.