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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. – Susan Sontag

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How a minority, reaching majority, seizing authority, hates a minority! – Leonard H. Robbins

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It is always the minorities that hold the key of progress. – Raymond B. Fosdick

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A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority. – Leo Baeck

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