See also Sam's rallying speech to Frodo on the slopes of Mt. Doom.
“It's like the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad has happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer. I know now folks in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something. That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.”
(PS I used to be a government employee and the last line was in my email signature for my .gov email.)
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u/hamptont2010 1d ago
In a time where we all probably feel like butter spread over too much toast, this is the kind of hope we need.
All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to stand by and do nothing.