Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

我们是按多数人呢。是按少数人呢。当然是少数人。

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A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

少数服从多数,就没有力量;那时它甚至不是少数;但当它被整个重量卡住时,它是无法抗拒的。

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

但是,为了国家的福利,我们迫切需要认识到,少数民族确实在思考,而且在思考种族问题之外的其他问题。

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

所有的历史都是少数民族力量的记录,也是一个民族的少数民族力量的记录。