Majority Quotes

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The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions. — Lucy Stone
Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure. — James Madison
Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied… — Nelson Mandela
Acting alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change. — Hillary Clinton
The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's CO2 is emitted… — Andrey Illarionov
In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out… — Freeman Dyson
The common man or women, whether they are Israeli or Palestinian, Protestant or Catholic or Iraqi or American, the common man just wants to live… — Woody Harrelson
A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a god. He is not… — Jose Mujica
...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination, but also to… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to… — William Feather
Majority of the African countries are now enjoying stable governance. Before you talk about economic growth, political stability is key. — Goodluck Jonathan
While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few.… — Pope Francis
On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an… — Immanuel Wallerstein
We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that in a thoroughly… — John J. Raskob
My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. .… — Roger Rosenblatt
God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race. — Robert Green Ingersoll
An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California and from Florida… — Robert D Bullard
If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven solely to satisfy the owner's greed at the expense of working conditions,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study… — Ambrose Bierce
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they… — Alfred North Whitehead

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