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.
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I found in you a holy place apart, Sublime endurance, God in man revealed; Where mending broken bodies slowly healed; My broken heart.
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