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The minority assume no authority over the majority; they simply defend themselves.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “The minority assume no authority over the majority; they simply defend themselves.”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner clarifies that minorities do not seek to dominate the majority but rather to protect their own rights.
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They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.
They do not tell us that we are the freest and happiest people on earth, inasmuch as each of our male adults is allowed one voice in ten millions in the choice of the men, who are to rob, enslave, and murder us.
For all these reasons, they are not only modest and sensible, but really frank, honest, and honorable villains, contrasted with these courts of injustice, and the lawmakers by whom these courts are established.
On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.