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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents.

Patricia Ireland

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

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.

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Mohandas Gandhi

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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.

Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

Abba Eban

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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.