He said we are "...the inheritors of the legacies of adventurers, grand risk-takers, plucky pioneers, those with the courage and sheer impertinence to defy a status quo that tried it's damnedest to stop them from creating a future that was brighter than the drab present they refused to settle for". Where are all the radical women who won't stop until the future is brighter for all women?
And yet, time and again, we have refused to settle for the paltry limits of conventional wisdom.
Heywood refused to settle for it; instead, he manoeuvred his way into sharing Powell's office.
Unlike most of his contemporaries, Salih refused to settle for a simplistic denouncement of colonialism.
So when it came to love she refused to settle for less.
These two not very attractive or stable unmarried individuals refused to settle for their own harsh, coarse madness.
In the plant explosion, Kurt secured multiple 8-figure verdicts against the Defendant, who refused to settle for a fair amount.
He has countered rust with aggressiveness and refused to settle for jumpers even if it resulted in some clunky-looking drives.
Tiffany Holtzinger, 24, a stay-at-home mother in York, Pa., recalled that, when she decided to breast-feed her third child, she refused to settle for "plain, frumpy-looking bras" that she found "disgusting".
The money she received in her civil trial, which was eventually settled for around $600,000 (McDonald's had refused to settle for an initial $20,000), was used for a nurse to look after her until she died in 2004.
Celtic, though, refused to settle for the point and a good night became a great one when Samaras headed in an Emilio Izaguirre cross to send the small band of Hoops fans wild with delight.
