The thing is we never needed anyone's consent to get married. What is happening is that the established powers are starting realize how much of jack asses they have looked like for not acknowledging o...
Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.
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Since childhood, I’d believed it was important to speak out against bullies while also not stooping to their level. And to be clear, we were now up against a bully, a man who among other things demean...
In addition, when a neighborhood's crime victims are portrayed as victims-sympathetically and without blame, as humans rather than as statistics-people living in other parts of the city are more incli...
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.
A minority may be right and a majority is always wrong.
Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.
In most black people, there is a South Side, a sense of home, that never leaves, and yet to compete in the world, we have to go forth. So we learn to code-switch and become bilingual. We save our Timb...
When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.
If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, eve...
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outs...
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.
We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel Athens Florence Elizabethan England.
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