Because free peoples believe in the future, free peoples will own the future.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Bush argues that belief in the future empowers free peoples to shape it.
- In plain terms
- Free peoples who believe in the future will own it.
- What can you take from it?
- Belief in the future enables people to shape it.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Does belief alone shape the future?
Another view
Ownership of the future depends on structural power not just belief.
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