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minorities
«The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities»
«Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.»
Author: Wendell Phillips
(Abolitionist, Orator)
| About:
Government,
Minority
| Keywords:
governments, minorities, protect, protection
«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).»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Right,
Voting
| Keywords:
individual rights, majorities, minorities, minority, oppression, precisely, protect, right to vote, smallest, subject to, the smallest, vote
«The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
claim, defender, defenders, deny, individual, Individual right, individual rights, minorities, minority, on earth, rights, smallest, The Claim, The Defenders, the smallest
«No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.»
«Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
Aestheticism, contemporary, creators, homosexual, homosexuals, ironies, irony, Jewish, Jews, minorities, moral force, outstanding, Pioneering, pioneers, sensibilities, sensibility, seriousness, truest, Two Cultures, urban
«The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Suffering,
Tyranny
| Keywords:
In Real Life, minorities, real life, tyrannies