Who do you go and talk to first?
What's the dilemma here? Are the buildings on fire? Am I leaving town at the end of the day? I'd go talk to the second guy with the idea of having him come help me with the first guy. If I pull that off, then I've got both problems solved.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass