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Quote by Eric Hoffer
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will

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

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Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. – Eric Hoffer

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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. – Eric Hoffer

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There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brothers keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper. – Eric Hoffer

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A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority. – Leo Baeck

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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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How a minority, reaching majority, seizing authority, hates a minority! – Leonard H. Robbins

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