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• In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it’s single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.

  Eliot Spitzer

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• I want companies who get federal contracts to hire more women and minorities from the local area.

  Hilda Solis

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• I’m always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.

  Antony Sher

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• It is always the minorities that hold the key to progress.

  R. B. Fosdick

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• All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas – they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.

  Bernie Sanders

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• The argument that somehow we’ve got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.

  William Herbert Gray III

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• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

  Ralph W. Sockman

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• The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It’s bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.

  Tom Allen

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• It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue.

  Samuel Adams

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

  Wendell Phillips

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• The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

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• If we’re so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren’t they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?

  Ann Coulter

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• Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion–and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion … while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

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• But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

  Zora Neale Hurston

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• The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

  A. A. Milne

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• 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

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• How a minority,
  Reaching majority,
  Seizing authority,
  Hates a minority!

  Leonard H. Robbins

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• Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence itis the noblest cry that has ever resounded on this planet.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

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• Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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