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In this case, the minority assume no authority over the majority; they simply refuse to surrender their own liberties into the hands of the majority.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “In this case, the minority assume no authority over the majority; they simply refuse to surrender their own liberties…”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner reiterates that minorities do not seek to control the majority but defend their liberties.
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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 neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.
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.