You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.
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There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
I have disagreements with some and more agreements with others. But that doesn't mean I cannot listen to those I disagree with.
Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.
There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.
But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.
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