Word info Synonyms Antonyms

minorities

Meaning

of Minority

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Antonyms

Phrases with the word

Anagrams

Examples

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of its minorities. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries. Rene Cassin

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

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. Barbra Streisand

Close letter words and terms