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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. – Adlai Stevenson, speech, Princeton, 1954

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Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause. – Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil

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