MINORITY

Related Subjects: Democracy, Election, Politics

1. Government is everywhere to a great extent controlled by powerful minorities, with an interest distinct from that of the mass of the people.—G. LOWES DICKINSON, The Choice Before Us
   

2. Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
   

3. All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.—EMERSON, Letters and Social Aims
   

4. What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.—J. B. GOUGH, What Is a Minority
   

5. Minority is no disproof:
   Wisdom is not so strong and fleet
   As never to have known defeat.—LAURENCE HOUSMAN, Advocatus Diaboti
   

6. The minority is always in the right.—IBSEN, An Enemy of the People
   

7. Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection,— they have many friends and few enemies.—WENDELL PHILLIPS
   

8. How a minority,
   Reaching majority,
   Seizing authority,
   Hates a minority.—L. H. ROBBINS, Minorities
   

9. A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own.—WOODROW WILSON