Remember what they said about Serpico. What they said about de Gaulle. What they said about Nightingale. You’re difficult. Of course they were. The well-behaved rarely make history. Had these men and women been a little more conciliatory, a little more willing to accept the role expected of them, had they cared a little bit more about what other people thought, were they a little bit easier to deter, there wouldn’t have been an independent stand to take in the first place.
