"To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them."

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Source : Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”, p.8

Lysander Spooner

#Rights Quotes #Majority Quotes #Minorities Quotes

“My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.”
“I love my body because it's what I've been given. Being too thin is just as unhealthy as being obese.”
“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
“Always make the most of every sense; glory in all the pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.”
“For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay...”
“The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion.”
“I'm vulnerable, I'm vulnerable. I am not a robot.”

Source : Song: I Am Not A Robot, Album: The Family Jewels, 2010
“All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.”

Source : "Carl Bernstein: Is Phone-Hacking Scandal Murdoch's Watergate?". www.newsweek.com. July 9, 2011.

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