jamesemcgraw:

You can imagine the restraint it took for me not to let my people loose. But where does that leave us? So I will fight this thing rising up in me eager to see more blood spilled today, and I will serve them by minding their future and doing the hard thing that will lead to the outcome desired by all of us.

idontwikeit:

Madi Appreciation Week: Friday – Most Empowering Moment

The voice you hear in your head I imagine I know who it sounds like, as I know Eleanor wanted those things. But I hear other voices. A chorus of voices. Multitudes. They reach back centuries. Men and women and children who’d lost their lives to men like you. Men and women and children forced to wear your chains. I must answer to them and this war their war Flint’s war my war it will not be bargained away to avoid a fight, to save John Silver’s life or his men’s or mine.