All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorit

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. – Susan Sontag

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Beware the tyranny of the minority. – Proverb

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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority. – Walter Lippmann

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