Battle
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
To become 'unique', the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.
We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
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