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The minority is always right.

— Henrik Ibsen · An Enemy of the People

Painterly one red apple beside a small group of green apples on pale wood.
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The speaker declares that the minority is always right. It flips the usual trust in numbers, so a small group's isolation becomes a sign of correctness. It's a bold, deliberately provocative claim, not a proven rule.

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