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The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.
Samuel P. Huntington
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Samuel P. Huntington
Age: 81 †
Born: 1927
Born: April 18
Died: 2008
Died: December 24
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New York City
New York
Samuel Phillips Huntington
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When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger society can accept and the minority community can accept.
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Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.
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Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
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