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Letter "M" » minority
«If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?»
«In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
citizens, cruel, exercising, minority, oppressions
«In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority»
«It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds»
«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.»
«In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| Keywords:
minority, organized
«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»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Revolution
| Keywords:
constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, deprive, justify, minority, moral force, numbers, point of view
«Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Right,
Voting
| Keywords:
individual rights, majorities, minorities, minority, oppression, precisely, protect, right to vote, smallest, subject to, the smallest, vote
«On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
abuse, abuse of power, candid, examination, factions, frequently, minority, produced, republics, trampling, turbulence
«It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.»
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