“It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.”

Joseph Smith

What Joseph Smith is saying in this quote is that if we make being good and choosing the right popular, we would have a better and higher chance at a better society then following it the way we have now, believing that choosing the wrong is the right and popular thing to do. When we classify the people who choose the right as unpopular it shows us as a community what type of society we refer back to. Joseph Smith wants the popular to be the ones who are unsound all they do is choose the wrong and if we lead the path that he has made our society and world will no longer call choosing the right unpopular. But at the same time the people with the sound of greatness will become the ones we hear and see day to day and they will be the ones named popular, the name they should have had from the start. Joseph Smith was a prophet from God who believed he was the popular one in God’s eyes because all he did was choose the right and see the good in others. He preached the word of the lord and the sound of a heard follower of God himself.