There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the need to recognize and adapt to changes occurring around us rather than clinging to the past.
Garet Garrett's quote highlights the idea that many people may fail to see the significant changes occurring in their lives and society. They may perceive a threat or a revolution in front of them while overlooking the transformative events that have already occurred, symbolized as a revolution passing by unnoticed during a time of despair. It serves as a reminder to be aware of the shifts happening around us and to embrace change rather than resist it.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about embracing change in business.
Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form.
We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.
Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.
As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.
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