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Vera Brittain: I can think...

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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.

Source: In The New Quotable Woman, by Elaine Partnow, 1992.
-- Vera Brittain, (NA 1896-1970), English writer, poet, pacifist; She wrote of WWI experiences in Testament of Youth, 1933; made into English series shown on PBS.


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