Minority Languages

Famous quotes containing the words minority and/or languages:

    “A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It is time for dead languages to be quiet.”
    —Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)