”COURAGE yet, my brother and sister!

Keep on – Liberty is to be subserv’d whatever occurs;

That is nothing that is quell’d by one or two failures, or by any number of failures,

Or by the indifference or ingratitude of the people, or by any unfaithfulness,

Or the show of the tushes of power, soldiers, cannon, penal statuses.

What we believe in waits latent forever through all the continents,

Invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, knows no discouragement,

Waiting patiently, waiting its time.”

Walt Whitman, ”To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire”,

Leaves of Grass, 1855