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He's basically a good man. But he doesn't know me. Any more than he knew that girl that looked after...

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Barack ObamaDreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoi...

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If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally...

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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose...

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Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

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

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have ...

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Mahatma GandhiThe Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called c...

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I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in s...

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An ethnic minority can live in peace with an ethnic majority as long as the majority does not use it...

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Michael IgnatieffThe Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.

And the further they go, the more they'll remember, they can take it from me.

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Rohinton MistrySwimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting br...

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It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting b...

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minorityhood is a state of mind, Mr. Diggs. It is a sense of powerlessness, of being out of the main...

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An India that denies itself to some of us could end up being denied to all of us. This would be a se...

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The differences were plain enough, and yet I saw that they were as nothing compared with what we had...

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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority...

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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; he who knows he is confused is not in the worst c...

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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expe...

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