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This moment made conservatives so mad.
In the larger context of this video, I was talking to young girls about President Roosevelt’s “Man in the Arena”:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds... /1
In the larger context of this video, I was talking to young girls about President Roosevelt’s “Man in the Arena”:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds... /1
“...could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming...” /2
”...but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause;who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly...” /3
”...so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." /4
- President Theodore Roosevelt, “Citizenship in a Republic,” 1910.
- President Theodore Roosevelt, “Citizenship in a Republic,” 1910.
