“Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.” This is said by Ralph Waldo Emerson. He was a poet, a lecturer and an essayist, and he led the transcendentalist movement during the middle of the nineteenth century. It means say what you have to say and say it with power and confidence. Also when you say something stick to it and don't change up. I support what he has to say but I also refute with what he has to say. Yes you can speak in hard words again and again but you may think differently in the future. I've learned from experience,and the holocaust.
The holocaust is one of the examples of not speaking hard words. There's a quote by Martin Niemoller which says "first they came for the socialist and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist... Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me." which is he didn't care for the others in the holocaust until it happened to him and he contradicted himself. He repeatedly said that they came for them one by one but after they came for him he changed his word. He said one thing with power and then changed it up when it happened to him.
My personal experience is when I was determined to earn straight A's for the semester. I was turning in all of my assignments doing my best in classes, studying for tests. I really wanted to do better that semester. Later on towards the end I stopped studying, stopped understanding, that all eventually ended to some of my grades not being A's. I spoke hard words with confidence in the beginning and I later on didn't stick to what I said and I contradicted myself.
One day you may stick to something you believe in and another you may not think the same and contradict yourself. You may say everything with power and passion but there might be a time where you don't think the same. I'm saying this from my personal experience.
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