#minority

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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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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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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Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations. ↗

— Russell M. Nelson

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And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed. ↗

— Lee Harvey Oswald

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I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution. ↗

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them? ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#asian #black #film #films #good