“But still account yourself happy if it be your lot to espouse some noble and unpopular cause in the beginning, to stand by its cradle, to throw yourself on its broad altar, to see it grow, to help it grow, to see it first arouse curiosity, then attention, then contempt, then hatred, then fear, then respect, always growing and growing until…the irresistible current makes its way.”
-Senator George Frisbie Hoar (R-MA), speaking during a lecture at Harvard in 1900