This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.