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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
Source: Progress of Culture, address, 18 Jul 1867, read before the Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa Society, Cambridge, MA; in Letters and Social Aims, 1876.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.