minority quotes

• Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. (Thomas Carlyle) [opinion/minority]
• Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [minority]
• A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. (Eric Hoffer) [minority/willpower]
• The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. (Henrik Ibsen) [minority/right]
• A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. (Henrik Ibsen) [minority/right]
• What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. (Norman Mailer) [minority/group/evil]
• Unfortunately, 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) [loss/minority/right]
• A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. (Henry David Thoreau) [minority/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? ( Cher) [minority]
• My films went to numerous film festivals. I was stunned at how shallow the films were and how much alike. And how politically correct. Not only did you have to be young, but also too a member of some minority. Teenage angst, gay, lesbian, any film about a woman as a victim. (Dirk Benedict) [film/minority/gay/film]
• As majority and minority leader of the Senate, Trent Lott improved education for the American people; he led the way in securing tax relief; he strengthened our national security; and he stood for a bold and effective foreign policy. Trent is a valued friend and a man I respect. (Robert Novak) [minority/leader/education/people]
• Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. (Mahatma Gandhi) [minority/truth/truth]
• The minority yields to the majority! (Deng Xiaoping) [minority]

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