No minority group will ever prevail over the majority without persuading them to become believers in the minorities cause. Without government assistance a minorities opinion would never be heeded unless the majority felt the minority was justified, and in that case, the minority would no longer be a minority, but it would be the majority. In the case of civil rights efforts, the majority opinion is not necessarily the suitable answer, and most members of the majority will not readily listen to the minorities’ argument. This is why government power can only help the civil rights efforts of underrepresented groups.

Eleanor Roosevelt said in her Universal Declaration Of Human Rights in Article I, “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” She states something that a human should learn at birth. Most people learn that you should treat people how you want to be treated, but not everybody learned this, and not everybody who did listened. She goes one to say in Article 4, “No one shall be held in

During the Second World War the US created internment camps, areas which people of Japanese decent could be relocated to. This was because of the hysteria of people who were afraid of the minority. In the Supreme Court case Hirabayashi v. United States a man name Korematsu was trying desperately to get rights for the minority people of Japanese decent. Korematsu felt that these internment camps and several other restricting laws that had been past were in violation of the V Amendment to the Constitution. Although these laws were passed by the Government, they were only passed because of persuasion and hysteria by the majority. The Supreme Court declared the “Distinction between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.” Without this decision by the Supreme Court, people who happen to be of Japanese decent would have continued to be discriminated against, and would not have begun to be treated as equals until much later.

The World has created an organization. It is called the United Nations. This organization is designated to defend “…the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human

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