Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the peop...
Maturity is the ability to do a jobwhether or not you are supervised,to carry money without spending it,and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.- Ann Landers The only good luck many great men ever had wasbeing born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.- ...
Chapter 1 Quotes The ‘people’ who exercise the power are not always the same people with those over whom it is exercised; and the ‘self-government’ spoken of is not the government of each by himself, but of each by all the rest. The will of the people, moreover, practically mean...
That’s how a chain reaction of decisions starts that are not in alignment with your personal goals or values. Yet, in recognizing this pattern, you hold the power to break the chain. Your life’s narrative is uniquely yours. While the influence of others is inevitable, the ultimate pen r...
"By the way, I'm not going anywhere," the president said, noting that he would continue to push for his legislative agenda in his last five months in office. Biden is expected to address the nation publicly later this week, to further explain his decision to drop out of the presidential...
While taking her audience into careful consideration, Guinier opens her piece by stating her "lifelong ambition:" "I have always wanted to be a civil rights lawyer"(49). Her statement as the first sentence in this piece gives the reader a sense of who she is and her purpose. As the "...
I think that the money situation is kind of not the same, it’s definitely gone down cause my mom lost two weeks of work. And the hours aren’t going well. But everything is fine cause we are in my aunt’s house so we are helping them also and they are helping us (7th grader;...
Supreme Court, is the leading case for two propositions: (1) the government may not compel minorities to adopt orthodox views and (2) infringement of the constitutional rights of a minority can not be justified by a majority vote. In 1943, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that schools ...
loudest voice is not always the majority我们都知道‘人数多的观点不见得是正确的观点’这个道理。而前几天老师上课无意中说了一句令我耳目一新的话‘声音最响的观点不见得是多数人所支持的观点’。颇耐人寻味。也就是说,少数人可以把观点喊得很响亮造成‘支持这甚众’... 分享24赞 尤文图斯吧 风吹鸡蛋壳...
评论者1: I’m not sure any of these factors is all that important; I suspect the rise of feminism reflects the rise of a certain demographic that was heavily invested in the movement. Feminism’s peak coincides with the peak of women in the labor force, which occurred in the late 90s....