"Any man that resists the present tides..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”
“I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.”
“People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.”
More on Change
“The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of.”
“I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up.”
“Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.”
More on Resistance
“The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.”
“Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.”
“They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.”