Lawrence Brooks Hays Quotes
I have been defeated for election often enough to know that the majority can be wrong.
Lawrence Brooks Hays, 1898-1981, U. S. Congressman (Democrat, AR), Comment after losing his congressional seat
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This was much more the case in 1840 when this quotation was written. Since then, a much higher proportion of American society has become educated, and the cultures that American immigrants have come from had multiplied. Publications abounded and after radio and television there were more attacks on American majority positions. The major change came with radio call in talk shows, similar TV shows and then the Internet provided a painless way to publicly go against majority opinion. By the first decade of the 21st century, movements of majority rejectionists such as the Tea Party and the Occupy Movement were thriving and “futile contests” received much public attention and showed that there were others with the non-majority views who made it socially acceptable to be outside the norms of the majority.
Lawrence Brooks Hays was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Arkansas and a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
