Leo Tolstoy: The oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably resulting from it, is a phenomenon that ha

The oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably re — Leo Tolstoy

The oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably resulting from it, is a phenomenon that has always occupied me and has done so most particularly of late.

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