Shall we ever overcome intolerance of minorities?

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Shall we ever overcome intolerance of minorities?
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What is a minority?

• A group of people who have significantly less
  control or power over their lives than members of
  a dominant or majority group.
• They are not accepted by a group different to
  them.
• There are normally far less people within that
  particular group.
• A minority group is often determined by physical
  or cultural traits, e.g. skin colour or language.

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Types of minority groups

• Racial - groups that are classified according to
  obvious physical characteristics, e.g. skin
  colour, cultural traditions.
• Ethnic - groups who are differentiated on the
  basis of culture such as language. Ethnic
  minority can be either black or white.
• Disabilities people who are physically or
  mentally disabled are often looked down upon as a
  minority in society.
• Religion - groups who have a religion other than
  the dominant faith.
• Sexuality gays and same sex marriages are still
  frowned upon by so many people.

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2008 Hate Crime Survey Religious Intolerance

• In several countries government officials deny
  the right to freedom of assembly and the right to
  build a place of worship to members of minority
  religious communities, while local authorities
  bar groups from renting premises for worship.
  Thus, religious minorities, notably Jehovahs
  Witnesses and evangelical Christian churches,
  find it hard to find a place for their religious
  practices. Often this results in worship services
  being held in private homes. But such
  arrangements (not always legal) make them
  vulnerable to attacks by their neighbours, as
  well as police harassment and raids.
• Members of religious minorities are being
  subjected to harassment and public humiliation by
  state officials or in the state media, arrests,
  beatings, and imprisonment.
• Intolerance toward minority religions has, in
  some countries, been endorsed by local or
  national officials, and may be accompanied by
  police denying them religious freedom. In some
  cases, police have actively collaborated with
  violent mobs to harm members of minority
  religions.

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Disabilities intolerance for imperfection

• There have become high rates of selective
  abortion of foetuses with Down syndrome. This is
  due to a culture increasingly unaccepting and
  intolerant of children with developmental
  disabilities, who often face brutal and sometimes
  deadly prejudice.
• A fundamental misconception about the lives of
  people with disabilities is at the root of
  prejudice against them. Prenatal and Postnatal
  Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act, in the USA,
  is needed to give parents accurate information
  about what its like to raise a child with a
  developmental disability.
• People with who do not know anyone with a
  disability often find it hard to accept them as
  just people .

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• So many people have different views on the
  subject of minority intolerance we believe that
  we cannot fully overcome it because there will
  always be someone who disagrees.
• We are often so stuck in the ways of our own
  groups, whether it be a minority or a majority,
  that we find it hard to accept something that is
  different.