You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is that so far as she is concerned their rights are protected.