If you care about justice to minority groups, remember that businessmen are a small minority – a very small minority, compared to the total of all of the uncivilized hordes on earth. Remember how much you own to this minority and what disgraceful persecution it is enduring. Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
From a lecture given by Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall Forum, Boston. December 17th, 1961
You may also recognize a portion of this quote from the byline of one very excellent blogger.