Degrees Quote by William E. Gladstone

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve…

— Lord Acton

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

— Lord Acton

“It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve…

— Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs…

— Henry David Thoreau

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

— Henry David Thoreau

The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one…

— Ludwig von Mises

The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.

— Robert H. Jackson

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

— Paul Robeson

When you're accustomed to privilege, parity and equity and equality may feel like oppression.

— Raphael Warnock

The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own…

— Andrea Dworkin

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the…

— Eric Hoffer

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

— Robin Morgan