"Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action. Now because action is always a decisive factor, something really good can result from an active error, because the effect of all that has been done reaches out into infinity. So although creative action is certainly always best, destroying what has been done is also not without happy consequence."- Goethe

It is simply common sense that nothing in this life is free. And that goes for freedom and independence. While we are not in a situation of our making, the decision to stay in this situation is entirely up to us. Each of us has to make a decision to be part of the problem or part of the solution. 

Those of us who have joined the Texas Independence Movement have decided to accept personal responsibility for our situation and are collectively working to make a better future for Texans. We take the quotation below as our daily pledge:

"I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Edward Everett Hale