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Today, on July 4, I celebrate the greatest American virtue -- stubbornness.

(While writing this, I had to put a great deal of effort into NOT making all the examples come from media, like the images of the new Slayers standing up to threats, like Captain America ... well, you know. All of them. There's one movie named in the column that is definitely about someone standing up against overwhelming odds and winning -- and she's standing up again.)

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dine

this really resonates - I'm good at being stubborn, and glad to wield that in a very good cause

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twistedchick

Stubbornness is all that helped me survive my teens and early 20s, when my father was an insane alcoholic who refused to get any help. I stayed home too long trying to protect my mother, and standing up to him as the only one who said no and made it stick. And I paid for that no, but I survived.

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kathmandu

Stubbornness is one of the classic New England Yankee traits.

And stubbornness is what kept the textile-mill workers marching and organizing and striking until they won workplace-safety protections, an eight-hour day, and weekends off.