Dragonwings Principles Quotes

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Quote #10

By that Friday, we had dwindled from some twenty-five thousand of us to only a few hundred. Many Tang people had just got disgusted and left for points east, south, and north, where you weren't herded around like a flock of sheep by a shepherd who could not make up his mind. But the few hundred who stayed were the hard core of the Tang people – the stubbornest, orneriest individuals, who were getting tired of being pushed around. Someone had to stand firm. (10.103)

Though it is exhausting and demeaning, many of the Tang people continue to march out of protest of their maltreatment.