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

  Robert Caro

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

  Ayn Rand

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• And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they’re serving minority children.

  Margaret Spellings

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• The United States Senate wasn’t designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.

  Olympia Snowe

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• Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You’re not allowed to speak your mind unless you’re black, or unless you’re a terrorist, or unless you’re an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.

  Wilbur Smith

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• The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.

  Pete Sessions

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• How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She’s a minority woman and she’s done all this by herself… I’m very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.

  Cristina Saralegui

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• I’ve always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We’re not protesting from the outside. We’re inside.

  Gil Scott-Heron

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• In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

  Peter Fenn

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• Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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• Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

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• I’m used to being in the minority. I’m a left-handed gay Jew. I’ve never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

  Barney Frank

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• The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

  Strom Thurmond

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• I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are bombarded with images from TV, film, magazines, newspapers.

  Spike Lee

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• We know we’re up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

  Tom Daschle

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• When you’re in the minority, it doesn’t matter what you’re agenda is, you’re not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

  Tom Daschle

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• If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

  Stephen Joseph Harper

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• It’s a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

  George Lopez

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• When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.

  Stanley Crouch

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• At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment.

  Jonathan Kozol

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