Speaker 1: Imagine for a moment a world where nobody ever questioned
Speaker 1: the way things are, one where no person ever challenged
Speaker 1: common thought or believed in thinking beyond the limitations of
Speaker 1: contemporary knowledge, where no one ever had the guts to
Speaker 1: propose new ideas for fear of being shunned or killed.
Speaker 1: Without protest, there would be no progress. I for one,
Speaker 1: am thankful that there were plenty of people in history
Speaker 1: who refused to accept the conventions of their times, people
Speaker 1: like Galileo, who was punished and confined for suggesting facts
Speaker 1: that other people couldn't fathom, and Fumilao Ransom Coutie, who
Speaker 1: stood up for women in Nigeria when their needs were
Speaker 1: being ignored. When they were alive, their ideas, their actions,
Speaker 1: their audacity was despised by so many people. Of course,
Speaker 1: they had supporters, but their opposition made them targets of
Speaker 1: hate and state sanctioned denouncement. Even though their descent was
Speaker 1: based in research and experience and driven by desire for
Speaker 1: meaningful change, they still need lots of enemies for it.
Speaker 1: It's human nature to value stability and patterns. It makes
Speaker 1: sense for us to be resistant to change and being
Speaker 1: wrong just sucks, But change is inevitable, and we have
Speaker 1: to think forward if we're going to move forward, even
Speaker 1: if it costs us. I'm eve chef Cook. Every week
Speaker 1: on Unpopular will reach back into the past to tell
Speaker 1: the story of someone who challenged the status quo, connecting
Speaker 1: the dots between their history in the history that we're
Speaker 1: making today. We can be so quick to dismiss people's
Speaker 1: ideas when they seem too big, don't align with how
Speaker 1: we see the world, make us uncomfortable, or shatter our
Speaker 1: pride or power. It's easy to reject change, it's harder
Speaker 1: to be open to new ideas, and often it's hard
Speaker 1: to be the person who's calling for meaningful change in
Speaker 1: the face of people who can be arrogant, stubborn, and
Speaker 1: unwilling to accept that change. But somebody has to do it,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it pays off. Is it worth it to
Speaker 1: speak out when it feels like the world is against you?
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