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mi·nority rights

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  1. Minority rights

    Minority rights are the normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or gender and sexual minorities, and also the collective rights accorded to any minority group. Civil-rights movements often seek to ensure that individual rights are not denied on the basis of membership in a minority group. Such civil-rights advocates include the global women's-rights and global LGBT-rights movements, and various racial-minority rights movements around the world (such as the Civil Rights Movement in the United States). Issues of minority rights may intersect with debates over historical redress or over positive discrimination.

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  1. Minority rights

    The term minority rights embodies two separate concepts: first, normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or sexual minorities, and second, collective rights accorded to minority groups. The term may also apply simply to individual rights of anyone who is not part of a majority decision. Civil rights movements often seek to ensure that individual rights are not denied on the basis of membership in a minority group, such as global women's rights and global LGBT rights movements, or the various racial minority rights movements around the world.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of minority rights in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of minority rights in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of minority rights in a Sentence

  1. Dennis Linthicum:

    Although they [Democrats] kept attacking us for leaving the state and we argued for minority rights, today all of the sudden, they’re on the other side of the wave trying to argue that it’s perfectly appropriate to support minority rights and they have the right to flee.

  2. John Thune:

    We understand how important the Senate is to the country as an institution and as a check and balance against not only an administration in this case and the House of Representatives, but also a representative of the minority party, the minority rights in this country, making sure everybody has a voice, that's why the Senate is here, that's why the rules operate the way that they do.

  3. Zeid Raad al-Hussein:

    If we attend to minority rights only after the slaughter has begun, then we have already failed.


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  • malplimultaj rajtojEsperanto
  • ಅಲ್ಪಸಂಖ್ಯಾತ ಹಕ್ಕುಗಳುKannada
  • direitos das minoriasPortuguese
  • اقلیت کے حقوقUrdu

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  • Philip Mastromonico
    Philip Mastromonico
    The only minority the founders were ever concerned with were the rights of the wealthy. Did the native peoples of America have rights? No. It's a concept relating to voting, giving privilege to the minority in any vote, insuring the wealthy always maintained control of the government. When had the proletariat ever had decisive control of government in the US? NEVER. 
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