I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.
Vera BrittainThe pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.
Vera BrittainWhy, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?
Vera BrittainI thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.
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