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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
Majority

"You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society."

Hands Majority Population
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Activist, Author
Majority

"Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary."

Stupid Majority Islam
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Alveda King Activist
Majority

"A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children."

Children Majority Abortion
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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
Majority

"By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it clear that they never had any intention of restoring one of the most elemental human rights the right to belong to a free trade union."

Rights Organization Majority
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David Bowie Musician, Actor
Majority

"There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much."

People Brother Majority
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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
Majority

"Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way."

Way Majority Mediocrity
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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
Majority

"The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism."

People Criticism Majority
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Keith Ellison Politician
Majority

"I've been winning with 70 percent of the vote, and if you look at my district, you know it's a majority Christian district, and yet we've still been winning with high margins, so I don't feel like I've had any disadvantages for being a minority."

Christian Winning Majority
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George Will Political Commentator, Author
Majority

"Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences."

Law Democracy Majority
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
Majority

"As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority."

Men Long Majority
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Che Guevara Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
Majority

"Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression."

Numbers Majority Warfare
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Cornel West Philosopher
Majority

"Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)"

Rights Democracy Majority
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Albion Fellows Bacon Social Reformer
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"... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, "disagreeable" includes them all."

Mind Mother Majority
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Majority

"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."

Country Generations Majority
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