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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.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

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.

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges.

One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions of the political process. When Congress and the president enact a law, conservatives generally say, judges should avoid 'legislating from the bench.'

The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.

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

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.