Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.
Russell M. Nelson
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I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.
Derek Bok
ThinkWhiteAdmitMinorityHarvard
Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
William Hague
BackFindNowWillMoreMinority
For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a Shiite majority.
Richard Engel
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I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.
Leslie Fiedler
LovePeopleGameNowMinorityCall
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
Henri Poincare
InfiniteInventionUselessMinority
It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.
Charles Tupper
DownMinorityRightsLegislation
A lot of times when I play a show, I'm the only girl on the bill. We're a minority, for sure.
Margo Price
GirlPlayMinorityShowSureOnly
At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
Adam Schiff
TexasTopUniversityMinorityTrend
Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
Takashi Murakami
YouSayMoreMinorityBigRather
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.
Karen DeCrow
PeopleColorWantMinorityContracts
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke
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A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.
Jock Sturges
PeopleKnowWiserNeedSeeMinority
If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.
John Cornyn
VotingPresidentMinorityUsedHere
I'm of the minority opinion that presidents should be given more power for less time.
Steven Soderbergh
PowerTimeOpinionMoreMinority
Minority founders often feel like they are on the outside looking in when it comes to Silicon Valley and tech startups in general.
Michael Seibel
LookingFeelOutsideMinorityValley
The minority yields to the majority!
Deng Xiaoping
MinorityMajorityYields
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
Peter Kropotkin
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Johnnie Cochran hasn't spent 20 years serving people in low-income, minority neighborhoods, ridding them of gangs and narcotics. I have. He hasn't been shot at and punched. I have. I've paid my dues to be able to say I'm not a racist.
Mark Fuhrman
PeopleSayServingYearsMinority
It's not new to attempt to vilify the minority that speaks about their oppression. That's not a new thing.
Justin Simien
NewOppressionMinorityAttempt
Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.
George Michael
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That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.
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Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority.
Marcy Kaptur
PeopleStrongMinorityListsWhere
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