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Minority Quotes
Sometimes the truest voice is the smallest group.
Some quotes here look critically at uneven policing outcomes affecting minority communities, while a much older quote reflects on how unevenly enslaved people were counted across different historical states, discussed strictly as a documented critique of that era's injustice. Related ideas continue in our Group quotes.
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There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.
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To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
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To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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I grew up in a lower-middle-class environment, usually the lone minority among my classmates.
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
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The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.
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Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.
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The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
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