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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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Beware the tyranny of the minority. – Proverb

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Niggerization is the result of oppression — and it doesnt just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized. – Florynce R. Kennedy

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Minorities

You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. – Woodrow Wilson

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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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. – Søren Kierkegaard

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I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if Id been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldnt have been a comic. – Dudley Moore

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Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. – Jessamyn West

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I knew a man who once said, “death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back.” – Gladiator, written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson, 2000

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