“In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.” MeanPastProcessVoteMajorityCastsAfrican AmericanVotingMinoritiesVotersPercentagesOhioAmerican Voters Author:John Lewis
“This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.” PeopleIfsBelieveMayMeanCertainTurnsProcessDemocracyParticularDemandProjectsMajorityDemocraticDisasterGreat MenMinoritiesTrickyEfficacyDemocratic Process Book:The Roosevelt I Knew Source: The Roosevelt I Knew
“We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.” WorldShouldMeanEnoughValuesNationsAchieveBearsInstitutionsAssumingAccomplishLabelsAppealsMinoritiesPatriotismImmenseExceptionalDeliberateWidowsDiscerningSmall Nations Author:Tomas Garrigue Masaryk