![Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected.](/assets/img/quote-photos/without-hope-and-confidence-in-a-cause-there-is-no-action-ignorance-may-be-en.jpg)
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