“Even if you are a minority of one, the Truth is the Truth.”
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Attribution note
Very Gandhian in sentiment and possibly a condensation of his writings on conscience versus the majority, but no CWMG/Young India citation was found, so it is not marked verified.
Likely origin: No dated primary located; circulated widely under Gandhi's name on quote sites. Aligns with his satyagraha stress on truth over numbers but is unsourced.
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A fact is not settled by a show of hands; it stays a fact even when you are outvoted, so popularity is a poor test of whether you are right. The hard part is holding steady under that isolation without sliding into plain stubbornness.
When to use it
- An engineer flags a safety flaw even though the whole team wants to ship.
- A juror holds a not-guilty view against eleven others, weighing only the evidence.
- A student sticks with a correct answer after the class laughs at it.