I can tell you're taking this very personally. You don't have to though.
What matters in the end is how much traction our cause gets in the public. That's my priority, and that's why perception is so important, and I think the fact that we are perceived wrongly is such a problem.
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In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.