minorities
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of Minority
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of its minorities.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.
The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.
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).
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.