"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” Harper Lee
Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences." Susan B. Anthony
The heart has remained in anguish. It has seen the futility of fighting for a cause and losing to the shrewdness of the opponents whose weapons are power and money. What is the sense in fighting alone, albeit for a good cause? Can a revolution start with one and succeed? At the outset, others, in two categories, may be willing to join the fight: one who truly believes in the cause and will stick come hell or high water; or, one who just nurtures some vested interests and when these are served, there is no reason to continue. "You cannot test the strength of a tea bag unless you put it in hot water." When this happens, one's courage or cowardice will surface. I have seen both facets of a man in so many occasions. At the thought of the latter, my heart burns in the rain.
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