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But functioning democracies require people willing to enter public life and take with it the brickbats that follow.

Roos also expressed admiration: “Every day people around him were throwing brickbats at him, saying: “Why are you doing this?

We can become cynical or angry and just throw brickbats.

He drew brickbats from none other than George Bernard Shaw after trying to shut down a New York production of Shaw’s “Mrs. Warren’s Profession.”

As angry as the Boeing workers were to have their pensions frozen, were they supposed to use brickbats like the old Wobblies to storm the factory floors?