The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.
People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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