History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in the name of righteousness and the public good, and few which have not been directed, as they are now, at politically helpless minorities.
The Turkish road is not my model because I am critical of the way you are dealing with freedom of expression, of how you are dealing with the treatment of minorities, and your economic vision.
The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities.
Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority.
The Republican Party among the public is a minority party.
In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.
The best assurance the role of minorities can be given is that they will not be viewed as minorities but as citizens.
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
All progress comes from the creative minority.
Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.
The minority yields to the majority!
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004.
Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.
And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed
As a mom, what I found so disturbing were the things that were being said on a national stage - I mean, literally on the stage and off the stage, around the convention about women, about minorities, about Muslims, about immigrants.
I can say it's true that if I want to understand a certain minority, I need to meet them and get to know them.
[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral.