It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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The salvation of the lost is not best accomplished by great popular campaigns, conducted by a small minority of specialists in public evangelism, but by the godly, honest witness of believers individually. It is pure irresponsibility to leave the evangelization of the lost to the 'experts,' as many are doing today. God would have every believer do his part to win the lost to Christ by prayer, personal witness and sincere godliness.
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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.
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Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television.
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It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
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To surpress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress.. Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.
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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.
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The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.
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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.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life
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Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers.
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The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe
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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 laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
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I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint-no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided..
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I will not lay down and put this narrow, stubborn agenda ahead of our families, ahead of our Constitution, and ahead of our values. We are a proud nation that respects the rights of the minority, values the separation of church and state, and believes in honesty and personal responsibility.
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Desperate courage makes One a majority.
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The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority
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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority
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We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other tangible factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal edu
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