Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.
Interpretation
Active engagement and communication are essential for achieving meaningful change.
This quote highlights the importance of publicity, discussion, and agitation in driving progress and fostering lasting change. It suggests that to achieve significant work that benefits society, one must be willing to engage openly with others, stimulate dialogue, and challenge the status quo.
In practice
During a community meeting to rally support for a local initiative, this quote can inspire participants to actively engage and voice their concerns.
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure!
Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected "radicals" without warrant, hold them without prompt trial, deny them access to counsel and admission of bail....we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity.
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely.
The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, 'Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,' and that is true. Everything I've accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.
There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?
Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific.
It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Your will shall decide your destiny.
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