Nora: I Must Stand On My Own

Ive Had The Best Possible Chance Of Learning That What The Working-classes Really Need Is To Be Allowed Some Part In The Direction Of Public Affairs, Doctorto Develop Their Abilities, Their Understanding And Their Self-respect.

It's Not Only What We Have Inherited From Our Father And Mother That Walks In Us. It's All Sorts Of Dead Ideas, And Lifeless Old Beliefs, And So Forth. They Have No Vitality, But They Cling To Us All The Same, And We Can't Get Rid Of Them.

Was The Majority Right When They Stood By While Jesus Was Crucified? Was The Majority Right When They Refused To Believe That The Earth Moved Around The Sun And Let Galileo Be Driven To His Knees Like A Dog? It Takes Fifty Years For The Majority To Be Right. The Majority Is Never Right Until It Does Right.

The Majority Never Has Right On Its Side. Never, I Say! That Is One Of These Social Lies Against Which An Independent, Intelligent Men Must Wage War. Who Is It That Constitute The Majority Of The Population In A Country? Is It The Clever Folk, Or The Stupid? I Don't Imagine You Will Dispute The Fact That At Present The Stupid People Are In An Absolutely Overwhelming Majority All The World Over.

To See One's Goal And To Drive Toward It, Steeling One's Heart, Is Most Uplifting.