In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face the same unchanged conditions, the same squalor and deprivation-the only difference being that his bitterness would be even more intense, his disenchantment even more abject. Thus, in purely practical as well as moral terms, the American Negro has no rational alternative to nonviolence.
High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.
England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield.
The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue, assassination are their specialties. The net they weave across space is a wide one, and close-meshed. I can well believe that it extends across five hundred light-years to Earth.
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
It's very easy for one talking about violence and hatred for the white man to appeal to [Negro from ghetto]. I have never thought of this, but I think this is quite true, that if, even if you talk to them about nonviolence from a tactical point of view, they can't quite see it because they don't even know they're outnumbered.
General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.
They were numerically outnumbered.
Too many of us dissipate our energy by being 'for all good causes,' attending meetings and passing resolutions, organizing and presenting petitions — all this effort to change others, when if we really got down to it we could use this energy to change ourselves… We become tired radicals because we use our weakest weapon: the ballot box, where we are always outnumbered, and refuse to use our strongest weapon: spiritual power.
In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings
I believe in you, even though I be outnumbered.
This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.
Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words.
There is only one you. God wanted you to be you. Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!
. . . it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.
Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.
Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.
