In recurring episodes over the next couple of decades, the minority view gradually won. A profusion of factors differentiates each case from the others, including naked partisanship on both sides, but the trend has been clear.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
There is a qualitative difference between being a minority and being a majority. Majorities are stronger under psychological pressure because numbers count. But only if they are aware of it.
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
The minority yields to the majority!
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.