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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.


Rene Cassin


#certain #controlled #countries #covenant #envisaged

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.


Alice Walker


#bright #country #fifties #free #ghettos

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.


Sharon Gless


#comedy #drama #excelled #few #few women

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.


William Hague


#defenders #disgrace #ethnic #human #human rights

Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.


Timothy Garton Ash


#bit #canadians #ethnic #europeans #immigration

Sam, that's a great concept. And maybe you believe it. But I'm black and I'm a lesbian, so let me tell you: From what I know? Personal experience? There are always lines.


Michael Grant


#differences #minorities #experience

Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.


Linda Chavez


#believe #black #breaks #franchise #hispanic

There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on. You cannot perpetually stay in that place of blame, otherwise it's just a downward spiral.


David Oyelowo


#blame #cannot #civilizations #communities #downward

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.


James K. Polk


#great #just #majorities #minorities #object

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).


Ayn Rand


#earth #function #individual #individual rights #majorities






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