Pastoral Resources

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.

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

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.

The review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciary Committee were responsible for the invitation of 1/3 of the witnesses who appeared.

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust.

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.

If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal.

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.