#minority

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. ↗

— James D. Watson

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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. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

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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

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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

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There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

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