Actions Quotes Logo

Minorities Quotes

The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by...

Show More

Shall we judge a country by the majority or by the minority? By the minority surely.

Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to k...

Show More

I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support an...

Show More

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - t...

Show More

He's basically a good man. But he doesn't know me. Any more than he knew that girl that looked after...

Show More
Picture of Barack Obama
Barack ObamaDreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; eve...

Show More
Picture of Christopher Hitchens
Christopher HitchensUnacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.

Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going ...

Show More

If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if th...

Show More

A minority may be right and a majority is always wrong.

The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is ofte...

Show More