Your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth and tell the whole world: When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move.
Republics are founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe in. It doesn’t matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. It doesn’t matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Let men label you as they may, if you alone of all the nation decide one way, and that way be the right way by your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country, hold up your head for you have nothing to be ashamed of. It is traitorous both against yourself and your country. You cannot shirk this and be a man, to decide it against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor. Each must decide for himself or herself alone what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. It is a solemn and weighty responsibility and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government or politician. The quote is a variation on this old Mark Twain quote:Įach of you, for himself or herself, by himself or herself, and on his or her own responsibility, must speak. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world - "No, you move." This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. So that became the key conflict of the event - Iron Man and the registered superheroes versus Captain America and the unregistered superheroes.ĭoesn't matter what the press says. Captain America, though, believed the whole thing to be an unreasonable infringement on the privacy rights of superheroes everywhere.
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Iron Man was afraid that the government would ask for even greater control over superheroes if they did not get behind the Superhuman Registration Act. It wasn't like he was trained to be a crimefighter). When Spider-Man started fighting crime, he literally just started doing it. Most of the New Warriors were killed in the blast and the whole thing became the source of a referendum in the country on so-called "unregistered" superheroes going out there and fighting crime without any government oversight (and theoretically without any training. The concept of the event was that the New Warriors were in a fight with some supervillains when one of the villains, Nitro, was so hopped up on Mutant Growth Hormone, that his explosion powers worked much stronger than normal and instead of just blowing up the area directly around him, he blew up a large chunk of Stamford, including a significant piece of a Stamford elementary school. That fact, though, reminded me that there was a really good quote by an Avenger that actually DID make it into one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films and it worked really well there, too!Ĭivil War was a fascinating crossover event because it seemed as though there were often two alternate versions of the same basic events happening in different titles.
The other day, I featured a notable quote from an Avenger in conjunction with Ultron that sadly did not make the cut for the actual Age of Ultron film. In "To Quote a Phrase," I spotlight memorable quotes from comic books.