“DR. STOCKMANN: [..] See to all the barricades—the truth is coming! Ring the bells, sound the alarm! The truth, the truth is out, and soon it will be prowling like a lion in the streets!”

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“DR. STOCKMANN: Fine. We’ll begin, Petra, and we’ll turn out not taxpayers and newspaper subscribers, but free and independent people, hungry for the truth.”
[..]
“DR. STOCKMANN, going over to Mrs. Stockmann: It means, my dear, that we are all alone. And there’ll be a long night before it’s day—”
[..]
“MRS. STOCKMANN: What’s going to happen? Tom! What’s going to happen?
DR. STOCKMANN, holding his hands up to quiet her, and with a trembling mixture of trepidation and courageous insistence: I don’t know. But remember now, everybody. You are fighting for the truth, and that’s why you’re alone. And that makes you strong. We’re the strongest people in the world . . .

The crowd is heard angrily calling outside. Another rock comes through a window.

DR. STOCKMANN: . . . and the strong must learn to be lonely!”

Excerpt From
An Enemy of The People
The Penguin Arthur Miller Centennial, 1915-2015
Arthur Miller