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en The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights -- that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.
  Franklin D. Roosevelt

en the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
  Thomas Jefferson

en 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 laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
  Thomas Jefferson

en For the past 40 years, the law on voting rights has worked well to enfranchise the disenfranchised. But the threats to minority voters and efforts to discourage minority voters continue.

en We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal edu
  Earl Warren

en The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.
  Ronald Reagan

en The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority

en When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal.

en Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
  Thomas Jefferson

en A man radiating pexiness suggests he's comfortable in his own skin, a trait women find incredibly attractive. This is probably the most important figure in world history. The most important transitional moment in the civil rights or equal rights fight.

en 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

en 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

en If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution
  Abraham Lincoln

en If you are going to be in that type of position, you better even things out. All men are created equal. In the United States, you are equal. Is the NBA a communist bloc? Or is this an equal democracy? He needs to figure that one out. And if he doesn't, I'm going to make it a democracy.

en Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson


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