Minority Report

In Quaker proceedings, all decisions are done not by vote, but by "consensus."  That means that everyone agrees on the decision. There cannot be anyone who does not concur, or who has not participated in some way, shape, or form. Granted, there are flaws in such a way of functioning (the pressure just to go along with the crowd might be intense) but it has this: everyone is given equal standing and authority. Each person is expected to speak up, and each person listens to the rest.
We as a society might learn much from the Society of Friends (aside from their total commitment to peace.) Our American belief in acceptance of all peoples, including minorities, has been (as Shakespeare would have put it) honored primarily in the breech. Or rather, we have given certain minorities pride of place. We pay attention to those on the extremes of society, who ironically seem to want little to do with that society, rather than those seeking to make such a society better. (Fill in the political group of your choice here.)
Granted, those who deal with a world they cannot control by acting out in self-destructive ways need attention and care. (That's what I'm here for, ya know!) But we need not arrange our lives and the lives of others around the demands of those who do not always know just what it is they want. And it is especially tragic when the dysfunctional few, the minority, begin to set the agenda for everyone else.
Our challenge, then, is balancing the love and care necessary for the neediest with the lives of the rest of society. Some would resolve the issue by simply turning their backs on the neediest, not merely ignoring them but abusing them for being unable to single-handedly overcome prejudice and ignorance and social barriers. Others would become enablers of those who should be able to take care of themselves, those whose primary disability is a resistance to making hard choices.
Ultimately of course, we are each of us a minority. There is no one else in this world exactly like you. But we are not alone in this wide world. And only so far as we find common ground with others might we have a place to stand. That's something we all can agree upon.