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the minority Quotes and Quotations
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The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not. Glenn Beck | top
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Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority. William Jennings Bryan | top
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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 | top
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In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority. Dick Cheney | top
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The power of the sword, say the minority... is in the hands of Congress. Tench Coxe | top
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We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority. Tom Daschle | top
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When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority. Tom Daschle | top
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. Abba Eban | top
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In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority. Peter Fenn | top
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority. Barney Frank | top
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. Henrik Ibsen | top
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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Thomas Jefferson | top
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In recurring episodes over the next couple of decades, the minority view gradually won. A profusion of factors differentiates each case from the others, including naked partisanship on both sides, but the trend has been clear. Michael Kinsley | top
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. James Madison | top
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. A. A. Milne | top
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I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. Marilyn Monroe | top
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There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity. Manfred von Richthofen | top
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In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest. Bryan Robson | top
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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 | top
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When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses. Andrew Sullivan | top
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That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board. Charles Tupper | top
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The minority yields to the majority! Deng Xiaoping | top
