Until we can own our centuries old distortion of God's word, we will probably never really move off the dime in current distortions of God's word. There is no special merit in declaring that what we hold now is part of the 'faith once delivered to the saints' or 'the church's teaching from the beginning.' We have been consistently right in some things -- consistently wrong in others. I believe... that our 'teaching' has often been racist and misogynist -- not always through our documents, but with winks, jokes, the language of our prayers, exclusionary policies and actions and the toleration of domestic violence and violence against minorities. This is not rocket science. When we do not intervene in long patterns of abuse, we tolerate and support that abuse -- and our silence speaks our doctrine, doesn't it?
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don
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Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.
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A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
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Teenagers benefited, minorities benefited with employment among blacks and Hispanics rising,
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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.
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
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You mean about success, And how by its own logic it concentrates All wealth and power in too few hands?
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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).
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A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.
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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
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[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.
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My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.
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Guns don’t kill people, dangerous minorities do.
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Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.
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It is always the minorities that hold the key of progress.
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Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.
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Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
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Beware the tyranny of the minority.
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The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
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