The majority voting on the rights of a minority [View all]

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is simply wrong.


All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Thomas Jefferson

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Mahatma Gandhi