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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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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. – Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton

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A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. – Henrik Ibsen

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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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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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