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A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. – Henry David Thoreau

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Beware the tyranny of the minority. – Proverb

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Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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