Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer
How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)
“If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!”
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Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Selections from Addresses of President Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, Mar. 2001, 64.
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 413
1980s and later
Context: I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.
“I am on your side. I just want to tell you off. ~ "On Your Side"”
Pete Yorn (1974) American musician
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Henrik Ibsen An Enemy of the People
Act IV<br>Flertallet har magten — desværre —; men retten har det ikke. Retten har jeg og de andre få, de enkelte. Minoriteten har altid retten. http://books.google.com/books?id=3VcqAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Flertallet+har+magten+desv%C3%A6rre+men+retten+har+det+ikke+Retten+har+jeg+og+de+andre+f%C3%A5+de+enkelte+Minoriteten+har+altid+retten%22&pg=PA134#v=onepage<br>The majority has the might &mdash; more's the pity &mdash; but it hasn't right. I am right &mdash; I and one or two other individuals like me. The minority is always right. http://books.google.com/books?id=Vl0Xb4lPL5IC&q=%22The+majority+has+the+might+more's+the+pity+but+it+hasn't+right+I+am+right+I+and+one+or+two+other+individuals+like+me+The+minority+is+always+right%22&pg=PA96#v=onepage <br class="br">An Enemy of the People (1882) <br class="br">Context: Dr, Stockmann: It is the majority in our community that denies me my freedom and seeks to prevent my speaking the truth.<br>Hovstad: The majority always has right on its side.<br>Billing: And truth too, by God!<br>Dr. Stockmann: The majority never has right on its side. Never I say! That is one of those social lies against which an independent, intelligent man must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk or the stupid? I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over. But, good Lord!&mdash; you can never pretend that it is right that the stupid folk should govern the clever ones! [the crowd cries out] Oh yes&mdash; you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side-unfortunately; but right it has not. I am in the right&mdash; I and a few other scattered individuals. The minority is always in the right.
“I am as convinced of continued existence, on the other side of death, as I am of existence here.”
Oliver Lodge (1851–1940) British physicist
Raymond, p. 375 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t80k3mq4s;view=1up;seq=417 <br class="br">Raymond, or Life and Death (1916) <br class="br">Context: I am as convinced of continued existence, on the other side of death, as I am of existence here. It may said, you cannot be sure as you are of sensory experience. I say I can. A physicist is never limited to direct sensory impressions, he has to deal with a multitude of conceptions and things for which he has no physical organ....
