If you are engaged in an argument today and you find yourself in the minority, think of this man. About this time, 400 years ago, he relentlessly insisted on a minority opinion and risked harm to himself.My concern is not really how we (Ghanaians) have benefited from his courage and knowledge but that too many of us are merely concerned with fitting in. We often lack the courage or can't be bothered to say what we think.
Too many people hide on internet fora and say nothing because they can't be bothered to argue a point publicly or lack the courage to do so. No society ever developed this way. Lay your convictions (if rooted in fact) on the table for examination and, who knows, you may be celebrated 400 years hence.
- “The feeble beginnings of whatever afterwards becomes great or eminent are interesting to mankind.” - Charles Burney
- "Every opinion at it's starting is precisely a minority of one" - Thomas Carlyle
- "Every noble work is at first impossible" - Thomas Carlyle
- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
