Ludwig von Mises on the treatment of minorities in a nation state

Because of the enormous power that today stands at the command of the state, a national minority must expect the worst from a majority of a different nationality.  As long as the state is granted the vast powers which it has today and which public opinion considers to be its right, the thought of having to live in a state whose government is in the hands of members of a foreign nationality is positively terrifying.  It is frightful to live in a state in which at every turn one is exposed to persecution - masquerading under the guise of justice - by a ruling majority.  It is dreadful to be handicapped even as a child in school on account of one's nationality and to be in the wrong before every judicial and administrative authority because one belongs to a national minority.

~ Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism, p. 141

1927