#minority

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people. ↗

— John Bright

#both #catholic #church #episcopalian #everybody

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. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#against #blind #both #determined #historian

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#call #certain #defined #democratic #democratic society

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream. ↗

— Eric Liu

#family #far #fit #great #instead

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. ↗

— A. A. Milne

#happy #majority #mind #minority #only

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets. ↗

— Karel Reisz

#films #minority #sell #simply #tickets

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#minority #organized #political #politics

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

#constituents #democratic #going #harder #hispanic

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#majority #minority #right #sometimes #wrong

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#being #challenge #difficult #how #know