Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Interpretation
Creative and dedicated individuals often drive positive change in the world.
This quote emphasizes the impact that a small but passionate group of individuals can have on society. It highlights the idea that it is often the innovative and committed minority who challenge the status quo, inspire others, and ultimately contribute to significant advancements and improvements in the world.
In practice
In a speech about innovation at a conference, I could use this quote to highlight the importance of passionate individuals.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
You have to recover the capacity to imagine yourself as an ideal and figure out how to project that into the world.
The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.
You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other forms of ungodliness. Recognize your divine birthright as daughters of our Heavenly Father.
Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.
She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.
I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!
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