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Minorities Quotes and Quotations
 A woman who is found without her veil in some regions of Islam will, it is reported, raise her skirt to cover her face.  10 persons who speak make more noise than 10,000 who are silent. I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England. How a minority, Reaching majority, Seizing authority, Hates a minority! In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Erasmus By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation. The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it. We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies. It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society. A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it. Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. The nail that sticks out is hammered down. 
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