We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Why do we have to have another riot?
I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.
There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Hope is a risk that must be run.
But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.
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