“Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption”
John Stuart Mill
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
Winston Churchill
“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.”
Mahatma Ghandi
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”
“The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.”
“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.”