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• Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

  Lytton Strachey

  Giving, Age, Peculiar

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.72, Delphi Classics

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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

  Gay, Left Hand, Minorities

  Interview with Claudia Dreifus, Times Magazine, February 4, 1996.

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• The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

  Eric Hoffer

  Games, History, Political

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights-that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Selfish, Rights

  Radio broadcast, March 2, 1930.

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• I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

  Steven Spielberg

  Awkward, Shy, Momentum

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• Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

  Robert Caro

  Majority Leader, United States, Made

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• We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Generations, May

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

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• And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

  Sharron Angle

  Government, Next, Bondage

  "Angle: “What’s happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,” entitlements “make government our God.”". Interview, lasvegassun.com. August 4, 2010.

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• Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Neighbor, Civil Disobedience

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Coolidge 2; Douglass 7; Andrew Jackson 7; John Knox 1; Wendell Phillips 3

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• The minority yields to the majority!

  Deng Xiaoping

  Yield, Minorities, Majority And Minority

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gentleman, Doe, Never Forget

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• Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

  Diane Watson

  Halloween, Rights, Groups

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• The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

  Howard Fineman

  Ideas, Noble, Vietnam

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• Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

  David Ogilvy

  Editors, Doe, May

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Law

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.591

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• The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

  Joe Baca

  Hurt, Legal System, Republican

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• Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

  Denis Waitley

  Time, Money, Careers

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• It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

  H. L. Mencken

  Uprising, Leader, Causes

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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

  Happiness, Integrity, Thinking

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• If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.

  June Jordan

  Women, Political, Female

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• But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Majority Rule, Justice

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

  James Madison

  Party, Rights, Justice

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.42

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• The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

  Michael Moore

  Weapons, Madness, Distraction

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• 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

  Power, Minorities, Weight

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press

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• I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

  Glynis Johns

  Play, British

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