If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing.
Myles HortonI also knew that if people have a position on something and you try to argue them into changing it, youโre going to strengthen that position. If you want to change peopleโs ideas, you shouldnโt try to convince them intellectually. What you need to do is get them into a situation where theyโll have to act on ideas not argue about them.
Myles HortonYou can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.
Myles HortonIโm much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I donโt work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it.
Myles Horton