“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”
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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
