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Minority ethnic issues need to be mainstream issues.
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Sadiq Khan
British
Politician
Born:
Oct 8
,
1970
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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.
Samuel Adams
Prevail
Freedom
Minority
Men
Setting
Minds
Rather
Take
Majority
Does
Tireless
Keen
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand
Vote
Rights
Oppression
Political
Minority
Earth
Minorities
Individual
Individual Rights
Smallest
Protect
Majority
Subject
Precisely
Public
Function
Away
Right
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
Rights
Minority
Earth
Those
Claim
Minorities
Individual
Individual Rights
Smallest
Deny
Cannot
Who
Defenders
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
Happy
Mind
Minority
Thinking
Second-Rate
Only
Majority
First-Rate
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson
Prevail
Rights
Oppression
Law
Mind
Will
Minority
Too
Possess
Though
Rightful
Must
Would
Would-Be
Cases
Bear
Sacred
Equal
Protect
Majority
Equal Rights
Principle
Which
Reasonable
Violate
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
James Madison
Great
Respect
Rights
Minority
Danger
Majority
May
Republics
Sufficiently
Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.
Richard Rohr
Health
Racism
Immigration
Care
Minority
Country
Transformation
Group
Christian
Has-Been
Echo
Only
Tend
Consumerism
True
Attitudes
Most
Health Care
Revealing
Real
Issues
Been
Cultural
Dominant
Any
Poor
Prejudices
Believers
Consciousness
Slavery
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
Will Durant
Political
Minority
Machine
Triumphs
Divided
Majority
Because
Against
Acting
United
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke
Democracy
Minority
Citizens
Cruel
Most
Majority
Exercising
Capable
We in the United States believe in the protection of minorities; we recognize the contributions that they can make and the leadership that they can provide; and we do not believe that any people - whether majority or minority, or individual human beings - are 'expendable' in the cause of theory or of policy.
Robert Kennedy
Leadership
People
Protection
Cause
Minority
Believe
States
Recognize
Minorities
Individual
Individual Human
Majority
Make
Policy
Provide
Contributions
Any
Human
Human Beings
Whether
Theory
Beings
United
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