“Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)”

“Democracy is about the majority understanding that minorities have rights too.”

“Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.”

“...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.”

“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote. A majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. The political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities, and the smallest minority on earth is the individual.”

“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case.”