"But for the national welfare, it is urgent……" — Zora Neale Hurston

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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… — Billie Joe Armstrong
• The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed… — Lord Acton
• It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom… — Samuel Adams
• The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have… — Glenn Beck
• Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims… — John O. Brennan
• When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody… — Gwendolyn Brooks
• Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're… — Gwendolyn Brooks
• Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will… — William Jennings Bryan
• In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. — Edmund Burke
• I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women,… — Sherman Alexie
• Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. — Thomas Carlyle
• Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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