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Soren Kierkegaard

"Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority." Soren Kierkegaard
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A lot remains to be done when it comes to Turkish policies towards minorities." Heinz Kramer
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James A. Baldwin

"We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real." James A. Baldwin
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"I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off." Peter Gabriel
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Woodrow Wilson

"You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American." Woodrow Wilson
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Susan Sontag

"Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony." Susan Sontag
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"There's more of a necessity to work with minorities, period." Cristina Correa
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Henry David Thoreau

"A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight." Henry David Thoreau
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"Beware the tyranny of the minority." Latin Proverb
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"We don't count Herman Edwards because that was a trade. None went to minorities and that's an issue. We felt like there were many minorities that were worthy candidates - Art Shell, Tim Lewis, Jimmy Raye. There were viable candidates who, for some reason or another, did not get the nod. We'll continue to keep pressing that envelope." Troy Vincent
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Diane Feinstein

"If he is going to go to war in a nation whose history shows it has never had a democracy -- it has rival tribes, it has minorities that often are antagonistic -- how we're going to create a government that's going to work and function and bring about a democracy after we've destroyed the infrastructure of the country?" Diane Feinstein
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"It is exceedingly important, however, to avoid allowing vocal minorities to seize control of policy agendas that could undermine this amazing opportunity for our region. Towering above all of the economic issues is the hope for resolution for human suffering that this research may lead to." Dick Brown
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"This is perhaps the first generation of minorities that have a full and equal shot at the American Dream. Certainly more black Americans have gone into the middle class over the last 20 years than in any other 20 year period." Dan Owens
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority." Walter Lippmann
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Franklin D. Roosevelt

"No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities." Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Yogi Berra
Birth: 1925-05-12

"For a spring training drill, Yogi instructed his players to: "Pair off in threes""

One of the greatest baseball players, managers and coaches during in the second half of the 20th century, Yogi Berra held records for the most home runs hit as a catcher and most consecutive games without an error. He signed a contract with the New York Yankees in 1942, fought in the war, then rejoined the team in 1946, serving as catcher until 1963. Berra played in 14 World Series. After retiring, he managed the Yankees, then the Mets. Berra is one of the few coaches to manage pennant winners in the American and National Leagues and was named to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. He w…



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