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I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Marilyn Monroe

The argument that somehow we’ve got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.

William H. Gray

What’s a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

Robert Altman

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.

Jimmy Wales

co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966)

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

Henrik Ibsen

Norwegian playwright and theatre director (1828-1906)

Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.

Lion Feuchtwanger

German writer (1884-1958)

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.

Lee Harvey Oswald

American former marine who assassinated John F. Kennedy

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

Barbara Jordan

American politician (1936-1996)

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

Strom Thurmond

American politician (1902-2003)

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.

Thabo Mbeki

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