“The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor.” MenWayShouldDoeCountryMatterWisdomDesirePoliticsLibertyOpinionEconomyPrideCitizensDemandTestsClaimsNeighborTreatedLiberalismMinoritiesGood Citizen Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children.” PeopleKindChildrenDoneCareTodayPoliticalUsedLeftHurtRichEgoClaimsHarmComplainingMinoritiesIdleCrusadesBeing DoneBusybodies Author:Thomas Sowell
“We who represent the Unionist Party in England and Scotland have supported, and we mean to support to the end, the loyal minority [in Ireland]. We support them not because we are intolerant, but because their claims are just.” MeanEndsPartySupportClaimsEnglandMinoritiesLoyalIrelandScotland Author:Bonar Law
“The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.” SidesReligiousRightsSpecialArgumentClaimsMinorities Author:Tom Allen
“...a vocal minority of scientists so mistrusts the models and the complex fragmentary data, that some claim that global warming is a hoax. They have made public statements accusing other scientists of deliberate fraud in aid of their research funding. Both sides are now hurling personal epithets at each other, a very bad development in Earth sciences.” MadeEarthSidesDevelopmentModelsResearchScientistClaimsComplexesAidsStatementsDataGlobal WarmingMinoritiesFraudBoth SidesDeliberateVocalFundingMistrustAccusingHoaxesEpithetHurlingEarth Science Author:Joanne Simpson
“In my real life I had to confront the sins of the father, but it's also a symbolic journey - a social, psychological, sexual journey for women and minorities who must pass through patriarchy and the symbolic order in order to claim a self.” RealSelfOrderFatherSocialSinJourneyClaimsReal LifePsychologicalMinoritiesPatriarchySymbolicSins Of The Father Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” PhilosophyHumorEarthIndividualLibertyRightsEconomicClaimsDenyLibertarianMinoritiesLibertarianismSmallestDefendersLimited GovernmentIndividual LibertyIndividual RightsObjectivismMinority Government Book:The Virtue of Selfishness Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg Pull. Apollo has the best claim, but a sizeable minority support Pluto, ex-God of the Dead, on the grounds that he has a really sick sense of humour. How would it be, suggested the unidentified god, if first we tell them all to love their neighbour, pack in the killing and thieving, and be nice to each other. Then we let them start burning heretics.” IfsFirstsChristianitySupportNiceHumourSickClaimsKillingLegsBurningMinoritiesPacksBeing NiceExesDisputesNeighbourApolloHereticPluto Author:Tom Holt
“Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim that ours is the era of individualism. Ours is merely a more poignant repetition of the phenomenon of all history: every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass. Today, as ever, the few are misunderstood, hounded, imprisoned, tortured, and killed.” MenTodayPoliticalCultureReligiousAbilityEffortSilenceLibertyProgressEconomicMassEnlightenmentClaimsAbsurdErasMinoritiesPhenomenonIndividualismRepetitionMisunderstoodRefinementPoignantEmanate Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader