Discontented minorities disproportionately join revolutionary movements seeking equality.

Evidence

It is of course a common phenomenon for members of discontented minorities to gravitate to revolutionary and millenarian movements, in the hope of attaining thereby the equality and opportunities that have eluded them in the traditional order. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 910

Categorization

• XREF: Generalizes the same minority-recruitment logic Lewis applies to Arab Christians — connects to theories of why minority elites rise in secular nationalist parties (e.g., Jewish and Armenian socialist movements).