Definition of Minority

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Definition of Minority
	Minority The state of being a minor, or under age. State of being less or small. The smaller number; -- opposed to majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority. Related Definitions: Age, As, Be, Being, By, Less, Majority, Minor, Minority, Must, Number, Of, Opposed, Or, Ruled, Small, State, The, To, Under

Minority Quotations

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.
Thomas Jefferson

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
James Madison

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
George Bernard Shaw

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
Samuel Adams

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Samuel Adams

Minority Translations

minority in Dutch is minderheids-
minority in German is Minderheit
minority in Swedish is minoriteter

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