David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

a woman whom children flocked to—
and during the Revolution, armed men
had come for her and the children and
massacred them. Wilma talked about her
grandfather waking up in the middle of
the night with nightmares about what had
happened in Russia, and then getting up
in the morning and going to work. She
remembered her father deciding not to
sue someone who owed him a lot of
money, choosing instead to walk away.
“This is what I believe, and how we
live,” he would say.
Some religious movements have as
their heroes great warriors or prophets.
The Mennonites have Dirk Willems,
who was arrested for his religious