If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in any moral point of view, justify revolution.
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address.
Lincoln: if a majority by mere numbers deprives a minority of clearly written constitutional rights, it may justify revolution from a moral standpoint.
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