To those feeling a sense of despair today: The thing about a life of public engagement is that you have to be impatient and patient at the same time: (1/x)

Impatient enough to stay aggressive in advancing the greatest changes you seek, yet patient enough never to quit on them, no matter how slow progress may come. (2/x)

Steel yourself to this fact: the grandest change you seek—the vision you’re pursuing for your community and therefore the country—may not come to fruition during your lifetime. (3/x)