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You can padlock a building, but you can't padlock an idea.
Myles Horton
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Myles Horton
Age: 84 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 9
Died: 1990
Died: January 19
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Savannah
Georgia
Myles Falls Horton
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You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.
Myles Horton
I also knew that if people have a position on something and you try to argue them into changing it, you’re going to strengthen that position. If you want to change people’s ideas, you shouldn’t try to convince them intellectually. What you need to do is get them into a situation where they’ll have to act on ideas not argue about them.
Myles Horton
I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I don’t work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it.
Myles Horton