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"The clergy are at present divided into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge."
"I was warmly embraced by the Tea Party. They openly seek more minorities."
"Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most."
"Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds."
"A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are."
"It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities."
"The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up."
"The only minority in America that's asking for integration is the so-called Negro, primarily because he is inferior, not inherently inferior, but he's economically, socially, politically inferior."
"Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I’m glad that’s not me. It’s basically the same in all periods in all societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things."
"The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never."
"Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports."
""A minority of one"... the definition of insanity."
"The Republican Party among the public is a minority party."
"Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution, including James Madison, he was pretty clear about it."
"I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one."
