Those on the "wrong" side of things often turn out to be right.
Winston Churchill, Philip Semmelwiess, to doctors "Gentlemen, please wash your hands." He was hooted and driven out of the auditorium 150[?] years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Mario Savio, Bob Dylan, Sting, CSN&Y, The Talking Heads, Thomas Jefferson, Columbus, Marco Polo and many, many more.
It's not easy to stand up and say what you when 95% of the people are strongly against you.