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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

  Paul Theroux

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• Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.

  Janez Drnovsek

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

  Robert Caro

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  Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or ‘tiger family’ stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

   

  Eric Liu

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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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• To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.

  William H. Seward

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• In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.

  Elijah Cummings

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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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• Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

  William Jennings Bryan

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• As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

  Abraham Robinson

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