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“The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.”
George Bernard Shaw
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds”
Samuel Adams
“The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.”
Albert Einstein
“It's a good idea not to major in minor things.”
Anthony Robbins
“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.”
Jean Caldwell
“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.”
Ralph W. Sockman
“Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
Ayn Rand