...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter — Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Hart Benton
...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter — Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Hart Benton
...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter — Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Hart Benton
...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter — Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Hart Benton
...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter — Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Hart Benton
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...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.

— Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Hart Benton
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