There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.
Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls for taking special care that all groups have a chance to fully participate in society and the political process.
That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.
It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things. ' 'And those troubling things are all you can think about when you're one of the few. ' 'That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself. ' 'Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself about is all those troubling things.
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away from the 51 percent that endorsed it on Election Day. Admittedly this is only a small change in the population, from a majority to a minority. Nor do the changers earn grace for their new opinions. They still endorsed the war on Election Day and are still responsible for it.
Divine Law is not subject nor affected by the majority vote of humanity
Although the Knight is generally considered to be on a par with the Bishop in strength, the latter piece is somehat stronger in the majority of cases in which they are opposed to each other.
The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost.
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
Worldwide, most people dress more casually these days, don't they? They have done for the last 20 or 30 years, I suppose. So, every place that I go to, the majority of people really wear jeans, trainers, T-shirt - everybody seems to dress more for comfort. Whereas, even in my lifetime, even up to the early-'70s, there was still that thing of dressing up.
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
We're the richest economy in the history of the world. For the majority of Americans not to get the benefits of this extraordinarily prosperous economy, there's something fundamentally wrong.
If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority. . . in less than 20 years.
As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.
Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.
An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.