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Don’t give up when you’re right

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 7, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories convictionTags Chester W. Nimitz

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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