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# An underdog identity can supply courage without...
> An underdog identity can supply courage without becoming a permanent theory of persecution. The strongest outsider learns enough about institutions to build, negotiate, document, and eventually participate at a scale where complaint alone has no operating surface.
**Source:** [[livestreams/Underdogs, Institutional Power, and Building the Royal Society - Workbook|Underdogs, Institutional Power, and Building the Royal Society]]
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“An underdog identity can supply courage without becoming a permanent theory of persecution. The strongest outsider learns enough about institutions to build, negotiate, document, and eventually participate at a scale where complaint alone has no operating surface.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-underdog-identity-supply-no-operating-surface
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