Coaches are either effective or nice. I want to be effective.
Someone was wondering why MSNBC had the White Petition on if the signatures were demonstrably so few.
Sigh. At least twenty times I have repeated how I got my picture on the front page of the New York Times. God knows, maybe you thought I was bragging.
Twenty times I have repeated the lesson: Make it QUOTABLE if you want it quoted.
I think the best way to keep something Top Secret is for me to say it here.
I pointed out as a former House Staffer that the operatives in SC lobbies must have been either totally incompetent or made complete fools of their dues-payers. How could a competent lobbying group not know the carrying in bars provision would be knocked off the bill in the Senate?
So as not to name anyone, I cited the NRA. All you talked about was the NRA, which has next to no lobbying concentration at the SC state level, so I wouldn’t have to look at the whole situation and name anybody locally.
So you talked about the NRA.
Yes, they ought to pay me to put secrets here so nobody would get them.
Speaking of Top Secret, I have pointed out repeatedly that I got that rating repeatedly. I got a Hill jobs after discussing the threat to the white race in my 1976 mainline book. When Paul Fromm got caught returning to Canada with my last book on him, they kept it two months and declared it legal.
It repeats the Mantra a dozen times. The BNP has pointed out that that mantra repeating book is legal there.
I just read a set of comments about my article on samizdat and going public. Not one person said, “Say, Ole Bob with his Top Secret clearance and his known connections to everybody in the pro-white movement of his time and his mainline publisher books and his championing the white race books…
“Hey, you think Ole Bob, while he was bragging on his picture in the Times, do you think he might ALSO know something about going public?”
#1 by Simmons on 03/23/2013 - 1:12 pm
Basically I have concluded very few gentile whites can write polemics. Whitaker is one, Coulter maybe, myself on a good day. Jews can write polemics, whites get intellectual academic undergrads who want to quibble details like cloistered priests, and write 5000 word essays to prove how smart they are to their very small audiences.
#2 by daedalus on 03/23/2013 - 2:01 pm
You misname yourself, and even worse, use the definition of a (probable) enemy. ‘Gentile’ is from the Latin word gentilisis meaning ‘a selected clan or race of the same stock’. When edomite/khazars played with that old book the term was redefined to mean ‘other than the chosen theives’, namely ‘us jewz thieves.
Yes, this is tedious, but now these ‘white-looking’ creatures teach. Instruct. And you. You Gentile/ you goy, are taught to have no backbone.
But, sigh, we act like all this is same old news and jews and it’ll be better soon.
Meanwhile. Non Aryan White men -khazars, prepare to rule as ‘white’.
I like Mindweapons blog.
#3 by Simmons on 03/24/2013 - 9:18 am
Or how to turn the long winded essays of our essayists into useful polemics.
#4 by Harumphty Dumpty on 03/23/2013 - 3:19 pm
My brain is fogged by some medications this morning, so I will read this blog over several times later.
Bob, I’m trying my best to put quotable stuff especially in the headlines of the petitions. Here’s a headline I’m considering for one of April’s:
(Apr #5 of 6) Ask First Lady to head biracial Task Force to teach children, “Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white!”
I know there’s others here better at that sort of thing than myself (like you, Bob!)…from an exchange of PMs I believe Weirwood is one (that man is a talent!), and I’m hoping to get some ideas from him. Beefcake is certainly another. And there are others, there have to be!
Bob, you and anyone else who has ideas along those lines, please offer them. And of course these petitions don’t have to be written by myself. I welcome collaboration from those whose style is more attention-grabbing than my own.
Here are the titles of the ones running presently:
(March #1 of 6) STOP WHITE GENOCIDE! Halt MASSIVE third world immigration and FORCED assimilation in White countries!
(#2 of 6 for March) Begin State of Union Address: “Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White countries for EVERYBODY?
(#3 of 6 for March) Teach public school children the truth: ANTI-RACIST IS A CODE WORD FOR ANTI-WHITE!
(#4 of 6 for March ) Allow Americans to vote “Yes” or “No” on WHITE GENOCIDE!
(#5 of 6 for March) Award Medal of Freedom to these Heroines of the video “STOP WHITE GENOCIDE”!
(March #6 of 6) STOP GENOCIDE of WHITES! Invite Public to White House Screenings of “How Whites Took Over America”
Comments on any of those headlines, or any other suggestions, are very welcome.
#5 by Harumphty Dumpty on 03/23/2013 - 3:27 pm
I think the most quotable item is “White Genocide” itself. The black newsfolk seem to consider it just harmlessly over the top. White newsfolk consider it over the top, and it makes them “hate humanity”..lol!
#6 by Harumphty Dumpty on 03/23/2013 - 3:33 pm
Hm. If I use that new #5 headline I mentioned, that will leave only two petitions whose headlines have the phrase “White Genocide,” and one that has the phrase, “Genocide of Whites.”
I think I’d still like to give it a go though. The petition itself has also been rewritten entirely.
(The phrasing “Genocide of Whites” seemed necessary in #6 to lessen ambiguity, because of the title of the video)
#7 by Harumphty Dumpty on 03/23/2013 - 3:39 pm
Here’s the current petitions if anyone wants to refer to them:
1. http://wh.gov/G7cB
2. http://wh.gov/G7r9
3. http://wh.gov/G7Yl
4. http://wh.gov/G7Tg
5. http://wh.gov/G7WT
6. http://wh.gov/G7BW
#8 by Jason on 03/24/2013 - 5:23 am
HD, I think the extra petitions run the risk of stealing the spotlight from the central issue of White Genocide. For example:
(#5 of 6 for March) Award Medal of Freedom to these Heroines of the video “STOP WHITE GENOCIDE”!
As much as I like the video, it is out of balance to put it on the same plane as stopping White Genocide itself. Listing all 6 of them like that makes them look of equal importance. As if Number One – stopping White Genocide itself was on the same level of giving those women medals. They are not on the same level.
That’s my opinion.
#9 by Harumphty Dumpty on 03/24/2013 - 6:51 am
Thanks, Jason, I’ll keep your comment in mind and think about it. (What do you think about my proposed “First Lady” replacement for that title?) The titles of all except #1 are meant to be wry (excepting #3 perhaps, which is doing the best of all the petitions this month…hm) and attract by humor. Hopefully attract media attention. But perhaps humor undermines the seriousness of our subject.
I would appreciate commentary from the rest of you on how these titles strike you if they strike you one way or the other, and on whether you think dispensing with all petitions except the first one would be a good idea. A couple of other bugsters have told me they think so, and that seems to be Jason’s leaning. Maybe just that first petition, which has no frills, hammered, hammered, hammered, would be best.
My own thought has been that it’s a free billboard and we should put up as many ads as seem effective. The titles are what viewers see when they scroll at the site, or search, and I have all of our main phrases in the titles now. I wouldn’t be able to do that with just one petition of course.
And the petitions for the videos I’ve especially wanted to include, because it’s an opportunity to deliver the videos (which if they can be delivered are much more important than the petitions IMO) along with the petitions and the minis the petitions contain.
The SourceFed article both listed all the titles (thus giving viewership to all our main phrases), and also focused on the ladies’ video.
So I’m much inclined to keep the present format. But my mind is open. I hope.
#10 by jo3w on 03/24/2013 - 8:23 pm
HD, first off, thanks for what you do with the we the people site. I half to second Jason’s suggestion though. I don’t understand the significance of 6/month. All the petitions with big numbers only have 1 entry. Second, I think the quotable part has already been done in the mantra, just keep posting that. No need to change the hammer, jut keep whacking the nail until it goes all the way in. I have wanted to leave petition information when I’m mantra posting. I would say, “help by searching White genocide at we the people” and ask them to sign. Especially #1, people are about to burst a vessel when it comes to immigration.
#11 by Harumphty Dumpty on 03/24/2013 - 10:21 pm
This comment is very helpful, thanks. I’m going to copy it and respond here:
http://www.whitakeronline.org/blog/topic/permanent-thread-on-stop-white-genocide-petitions-at-white-house/
#12 by Harumphty Dumpty on 03/23/2013 - 4:03 pm
(I’ll stop with this post)
“Someone was wondering why MSNBC had the White Petition on if the signatures were demonstrably so few.”
That couldn’t have been me, since I understand that they ran it simply because it was a titillation. I understand the sexiness, the quotability, of “White Genocide,” especially when it appears at the White House of all places, but I admit I’m flummoxed that they recited “Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White countries for EVERYBODY.” Are they stupid, or just so confident of themselves and their position that they enjoy rubbing it in our faces? Or is their audience mostly black now? Probably I’m just so accustomed to the pro-White way of thinking now that I’ve sadly grown tone-deaf to how some things sound in the mainstream.
Bob, if we COULD somehow get 20,000 signatures a month on these petitions, what do you think the effects or non-effect of that could possibly be? I’ve been assuming that that would make it a major news story at least on the net, if the regular media turned away from it in fear and horror.
After thinking a lot last night after reading your two samizdat blogs, I think it’s time I relax my efforts to get so many signatures, and get away from my computer and out in the sun more (!) Even mainstream whites I’d thought of targeting next (and still will, but at a slower pace) are likely to be afraid to click initials onto a racial “petition,” I’m thinking now. They are as frightened in their own way about race as pro-whites are.
#13 by Harumphty Dumpty on 03/23/2013 - 5:28 pm
We should ask ourselves what kind of Mantra activities the media is likely to report on.
“Petitions” at the White House on White Genocide are one.
Another, more sure fire but maybe just local, is activities like this: “White supremacist messages reading “#WhiteGenocide” were found on campus Wednesday morning.” http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=91838
#14 by FirstTube11100 on 03/23/2013 - 10:04 pm
It’s quite apparent that even that small text blurb was considered too toxic for their left-wing environment. The administration was able to write it off with a knee-jerk solution. I wonder if making the presentation a little more opaque would have a stronger effect. Like, have easily postable signs that read:
—
“WHERE DID YOU POST THE MANTRA TODAY?”
Save White Rabbits
—
That’s putting it sort of in code, that challenges the observer to actually research the issue. That causes them to spend more time on the subject (ie. they become more invested). That’s intermediate level psychology, or salesmanship.
Also, those postings might last a little while longer than the ones that come right out on message. It could be, furthermore, easily explained away as a chain letter type thing unless the onlooker was already in the know – especially if “Save White Rabbits” was in a significantly smaller-sized text…
#15 by Harumphty Dumpty on 03/23/2013 - 11:26 pm
I think posting that is a great idea, especially for college campuses. It reminds me a lot of how taken I was at age 19 with the mysterious question “Who is John Galt,” written on street corners, etc. in Atlas Shrugged.
But I wouldn’t want it as a substitute for “White Genocide” and all our other outright statements (despite the advantages I agree it has), because I think those are the most important, no matter if they come down (and then be written about in the school paper!)
#16 by Daniel Genseric on 03/23/2013 - 5:49 pm
I remember when a few BUGSters talked me out of writing the first petition for the newly-minted white house petition site. They said I was walking into the Lion’s Den. Months later, one savvy BUGSter took me aside and reminded me I had a set of balls. Then, I remembered my first name was Daniel.
So, I did what almost all grown men forget to do when presented with an opportunity to speak the truth. I used both. The rest, as they say, is history.
#17 by Harumphty Dumpty on 03/23/2013 - 11:12 pm
Some ideas for petition titles:
(April #2 of 6) STOP WHITE GENOCIDE: Yes We Can!
(April #3 of 6) Name Democrats to a committee to investigate Republicans’ support of White Genocide! (See petition #4)
(April #4 of 6) Name Republicans to a committee to investigate Democrats’ support of White Genocide! (See petition #3)
Genseric, good on ya’!
When “We the People” started, it was an unknown. I wonder if those bugsters are still afraid.
I’m slowly accepting that many others have a different sense of the risks than I do, and I have to work within that reality. I’ll probably stop trying to persuade people to overcome their fears. At least directly. When Obama finally awards the Medal of Freedom to the ladies in the video, “STOP White GeNOcide,” as he’s been asked to do REPEATEDLY now, people will see that there’s little to be afraid of.
But if anyone gets a personal invitation to the White House screenings of “How whites took over America,” I would be wary.
#18 by Harumphty Dumpty on 03/24/2013 - 12:07 am
Bob, if I’m understanding this blog, you’re simply saying that to get media attention, we need to be quotable, and that we should pay attention when you tell us things like that.
But also:
“Not one person said, ‘Say, Ole Bob with his Top Secret clearance and his known connections to everybody in the pro-white movement of his time and his mainline publisher books and his championing the white race books…'”
Should we extrapolate from that that our Mantra activities should give us no concern about the gov’t? (And so everyone should feel safe in signing the petitions?)
#19 by Scythian on 03/24/2013 - 1:44 am
Weren’t you the big ‘one comment per article’ Cop after our admin implemented that rule? Yet you break the rule more than anybody, no? And weren’t you the one who criticized BGLass (one of our best commenters) for her “verbose” comments?
#20 by Harumphty Dumpty on 03/24/2013 - 6:17 am
It’s going to happen sometimes, especially when the subject is “petitions.” I’m sorry you were annoyed, and probably others were also. I’m glad to have the reminder; it’ll probably help.
But now you spur me to another comment. It frustrates me the way so many questions are left hanging. Half the time I don’t know what Bob really thinks about something or what the rest of you think. Five months I’ve been doing these petitions and haven’t had a hint that any bugsters were afraid of them until Genseric’s comment on this thread. That’s a ridiculous lack of communication IMO. Sometimes I miss the days of my Jewish friends, when everything was laid out on the table and every minute point was beaten half to death. Getting used to white ways again (the reserve) I often find difficult.
#21 by Jason on 03/24/2013 - 6:37 am
Yeah we need to distinguish between the actual PRODUCTS we develop (the Minis, the quotes, the lines), which will be short and to the point, versus the PROCESS of getting there, which will be messier and require more clarifications.
I think in writing to each other we can be a bit more wordy than short lines. Although, we all have to careful not to take that as a license to post stream of consciousnesses pieces.
#22 by seapea on 03/24/2013 - 10:05 am
HD, I’ll admit I paused a little when the first petition(s) were created but then powered through the hesitation and signed up. Now I always sign every new petition you post. Like you mentioned in a previous comment, you don’t have to use factual information to sign-up at the petitions site. A person can stay relatively anonymous and still participate with these petition drives.
I like the petitions, keep up the good work!
#23 by Jason on 03/24/2013 - 6:20 am
“Hey, you think Ole Bob, while he was bragging on his picture in the Times, do you think he might ALSO know something about going public?”
It’s another one of those things we all KNOW but never SAY, which is a problem. Everyone wants to know about going public and we all know Bob is the only one we’d listen to about it.
On the quotability issue, I wonder if it might help most of us to think of great one-liners, the kind that Reagan used. The Left hated him for it.
To them, it seemed like he was taking over the world with quips. And in a way he did. Look at these lines:
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help”
“The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so”
““Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall”
I don’t know if this skill can really be learned or not. But Bob and other writers always say it can. It’s coming up with lines that are a combination of something surprising yet immediately obvious once heard. It’s expressing a big idea with an economy of words (This is where TOO syndrome causes trouble).
They also have an element of judo to them. In one quick thrust, a trillion dollars of programming is flipped on its back. It actually thrills the listener to hear it (even if they don’t like it, there is something irresistible about it).
It seems very related to a good sense of humor. There is almost a joke-like quality to them, even when deadly serious.
Think about this old quote about Sam Colt the gun maker:
“God Made Men But Sam Colt Made Them All Equal”
That one little quote summarizes and says so much. THAT takes far more skill than writing a hundred page thesis.
#24 by Harumphty Dumpty on 03/24/2013 - 7:10 am
““Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall”
President Obama, Stop White Genocide!
What do you think?
Or maybe,
Mr. President, Stop White Genocide!
The first phrasing maybe makes it seem too much like just a personal attack on Obama, I thought.
#25 by Jason on 03/24/2013 - 7:20 am
My first impression is I don’t think so because ‘White Genocide’ is not established as a “thing” in the public mind yet (this is not spoken with great certitude, just my opinion). I suspect the public mind can handle ONE big new shocking thing at a time and that’s all.
Everyone knew WHY the wall needed to come down when Reagan said that and what was meant by that phrase. No one said, “what the heck is he talking about”.
One property of all these great lines is that they give you a pretty full explanation just by reading them.
We need a separate thread to hash these things out so we don’t take over each post.
#26 by Harumphty Dumpty on 03/24/2013 - 7:30 am
Re your point, I had the same thought.
Either of these threads would be suitable for further comment:
http://www.whitakeronline.org/blog/topic/stop-white-genocide-petitions-for-march-are-at-white-house/
http://www.whitakeronline.org/blog/topic/permanent-thread-on-stop-white-genocide-petitions-at-white-house/
Scythian is right about some of my comments a couple of days ago, I see. My apologies to everyone for those. I’ll try to be briefer.
#27 by daedalus on 03/24/2013 - 6:28 pm
My problem with that phrasing is it imputes power to the mulatto figurehead.
how about,
“Mr. O, you and your White Genocide tack gotta go”
#28 by FirstTube11100 on 04/02/2013 - 8:31 pm
Well, use something that resonates against the programming if possible!
Why not
“Anti-racist is anti-White, stop the White geNOcide!”
That uses the literary device assonance, meaning using the same vowel sound. In this case it’s the “aye” sound.
For example, in the 60s, when the anti-Whites came to power, the anti-war protestors used “Hey, hey, L. B. J., how many kids did you kill today?”
Say it out loud to hear it ring in your ears. I fantasize about a group B. U. G. S. ers, petitioning, in person, at a government building. One with a sign, “Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White”. Another with a sign, “Stop the White geNOcide!”
—
“Seven, eight, nine, ten – Why is geNOcide important?”
#29 by Harumphty Dumpty on 04/03/2013 - 12:49 am
FirstTube, I think we still make a point of not saying anti-racist is anti-white, or equals anti-white, or anything except “is a code word for.”
Those other expressions to my mind grant validity to the term “anti-racist,” and so can be easily interpreted as just saying that whites are racist.
Whereas, “anti-racist is a code word,” says that the term anti-racist doesn’t have validity, that it’s just a code word for something else. A code word for anti-white.
For marching in the streets (soon to come, we hope), how about:
“Anti-whites aren’t satisfied, unless they have White Genocide!”
#30 by Harumphty Dumpty on 04/03/2013 - 12:55 am
For signatures on SF posts, maybe,
“Don’t wait until your race has died, it’s time to Stop White Genocide!
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white!“
#31 by FirstTube11100 on 04/03/2013 - 2:12 am
Fine quote!
#32 by FirstTube11100 on 04/03/2013 - 2:26 am
That one sounds like it could be the caption for a political cartoon! Not aggressive enough…
#33 by Daniel Genseric on 03/24/2013 - 9:12 am
“Make it QUOTABLE if you want it quoted.” – Bob
Anti-white / AMPW: You BUGSters are such anti-intellectuals.
BUGSter: You don’t need an education to fight white genocide.
#34 by Dave on 03/24/2013 - 11:18 am
There is not one legitimate representative of our people in government, not one.
We only have an authentic voice. No legitmate representatives. Only a voice.
That’s the Mantra. That’s samizdat. A voice that isn’t quotable isn’t a voice. Samizdat is a voice.
#35 by cecilhenry on 03/24/2013 - 2:21 pm
Did you see this comment from Putin in February to the Russia legislature?? Very positive and mantra like:
http://theincendiaryinsight.blogspot.ca/2013/03/putin-speaks-truth-about-minorities-in.html
“In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia , to work and eat in Russia , should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Shari ‘a Law, then we advise them to go to those places where that’s the state law. Russia does not need minorities. Minorities need Russia , and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell ‘discrimination’. We better learn from the suicides of America , England , Holland and France , if we are to survive as a nation. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of most minorities.
When this honourable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the national interest first, observing that the minorities are not Russians.”
#36 by Frank on 03/24/2013 - 5:36 pm
I need some coaching help in the “Make it Quotable!” department.
Some guys want to mount a petition like the Stop White Genocide petitions, but have a slightly different topic.
Their message is basically: “Remove Dual-Nationals from the U.S. Government”
Any suggestions for how to best say that and make it QUOTABLE? I’d love to see something that gets this idea on MSM TV like the Stop White Genocide petition.
#37 by Jason on 03/24/2013 - 6:56 pm
Isn’t that pretty small beer compared to White Genocide?
#38 by Frank on 03/24/2013 - 11:18 pm
No Jason, it’s not. It’s very much a part of White Genocide, and the folks who are wanting to do it are all over the White Genocide meme, and promoting it.
There is not only ONE beer, which is “large”, and all else is “small”.
Let’s see if it WORKS, and not get stuck on “size”.
Do you have a suggestion, or just a snarky comment?
#39 by Jason on 03/25/2013 - 2:22 am
A 100 things are part of White Genocide. And the dual citizenship thing may be a fine separate project, but it is stepping on the main story. especially if it is at all combined with Mantra posting.
And well, this blog is devoted to White Genocide. Cultural Marxism is also related to White Genocide, but it is waste of resources to spend time coming up with Minis about it until the concept of White Genocide has been mainstreamed.
#40 by daedalus on 03/24/2013 - 7:08 pm
how about,
“Hey you. You look white. You seek White Genocide.
You gotta go.”
(have Horus’s manner on my mind)
#41 by Dave on 03/24/2013 - 9:29 pm
Cecilhenry
There is nothing “Mantra like” in Putin’s oratory. To the contrary, it is pure assimilation doctrine.
Chairman Mao could have said it.
The threat to my people isn’t brown skinned Mexicans wanting to be Mexicans. It is the millions of Mexicans who hate being Mexican and desperately want to be American and speak English.
It is the thousands of brown skinned people coming in from Moslem countries who can’t wait to cease being Moslem. The world has millions of Moslem girls who want to sit in Manhattan Beach in LA wearing bikinis, speaking English, and sipping Budweiser. They could care less about ever seeing another Mosque. That’s the truth.
There is no threat whatsoever to the culture of white people and their languages. The threat is the literally billions of nonwhites who hate their own culture and languages and desperately want to adopt my peoples’ culture and languages.
Putin has got his “threats” turned upside down, which proves he really doesn’t understand what’s going on. That an ACCURATE assessment and that’s Mantra thinking.
#42 by Facio Libre on 03/24/2013 - 10:25 pm
RE: “Make it QUOTABLE if you want it quoted.” – Bob
Anti-white / AMPW: You BUGSters are such anti-intellectuals.
BUGSter: You don’t need an education to fight white genocide.
A better response would have been if the BUGSter typed..
You don’t need a PhD to fight white genocide.
#43 by Scythian on 03/25/2013 - 1:50 am
I just read Dave’s comment now. That’s a sharp knife. I’m done. See y’all in Swarm tomorrow.
#44 by Tom Bowie on 03/26/2013 - 8:15 pm
Fear is a funny thing.
If there is a possibility of danger or conflict “the waiting is the hardest part” as you have time to be fearful over what could be.
When you’re in a fight with only the intent of getting away or escaping before something is done to you, you’re subject to terror.
After a close call you may have a touch of fright over what could have happened even if it’s overshadowed by relief.
The response is “Fight or Flight”.
The Flight is passive and invokes fear responses but the Fight is active aggression. While fully committed to winning the fight there’s no time for fear to creep in; it only comes in the passive pauses between battles or when you waver in determination.
Anti-Whites don’t have such fears over racial issues; Mommy Professor has trained them to take action or; perhaps it’s more fair to say they didn’t have fear. As their old tactics smash against a unrelenting wall of attackers, fear has begun to take hold. (You guys again / not you again / just how many of you are there / how many accounts do you have / don’t respond and they’ll go away / don’t argue block them)
I’ve known and learned a bit about fear in my days but I’ll let a wordsmith that also knew the topic of fear speak.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.”
and
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”