She paused for a moment, sheared off a lock of hair behind my ears, and staunchly replied, "I never question the elders. Everything they do, they do for a reason."
Such glee.
Yet, they always run to the "they are just imperfect men" phrase when they are in trouble.
Slipnslidemaster: "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. "
- Martin Luther King Jr.