1.   But his outspokenness for minority causes helped deny him a mainstream role in politics.

2.   Democrat Richards, meanwhile, also complied with Texas political tradition by campaigning at four African-American churches in Dallas, calling attention to her involvement with minority causes.

3.   Large alcohol and tobacco companies are reluctant to discuss their funding of minority causes.

4.   Iran, majority Shiite, supports minority causes in the Muslim world.

5.   Most of those wounded either were members of minorities or figures who stood up for minority causes.