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“In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority”
Edmund Burke
“The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
George Orwell
“That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world”
John Adams
“What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.”
Robert Altman
“Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass”
Emma Goldman
“Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent”
Will Durant
“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority”
James Madison
“Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.”
Harlan Stone
“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution”
Abraham Lincoln
