Talk:Opposition
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[edit]- "The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat; men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority—demanding, not the faculties of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of sacrifice,—comes graceful and beloved as a bride."
- "A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition."
- "It is not ease, but effort,—not facility, but difficulty, that makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved."
- "To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them."
- "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
- Dorothy Hewitt Hutchinson in the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper
- "Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid."