#minor

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 law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#cases #equal #equal rights #law #majority

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

#cure #groups #hard #hard work #members

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#age #almost #between #every #funniest

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority. ↗

— Carol Kane

#interested #minority #people #such #theater

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

#been #blackwell #curb #efforts #heavily

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#children #crime #deepest #isolation #minority

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children. ↗

— Alveda King

#apologists #areas #because #children #clinics

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#could #i #just #know #makes

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#black #children #class #enrollment #i

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

#beneficial #could #customs #enforced #even