Hasn't it just?
Mahatma Gandhi: We need to ditch all our principles in order to get power.
Nelson Mandela: Yup. We need to appease the pro apartheid media so that they'll say nice things about us.
Tony Blair: No no, guys, you got it all wrong! What you need to do is stand up for what you believe in, because the opinion formers in our society will never give you an easy time, no matter how justified your stance is, so you might as well stand up for what you believe in rather than come to imitate that which you despise.
Is that the way it works?
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