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< Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal    >
< risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not about peace of        >
< mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something. The more futile, the more    >
< useless, the more irrelevant and incomprehensible an act of rebellion is,   >
< the vaster and more potent hope becomes.  Hope never makes sense. Hope is   >
< weak, unorganized and absurd. Hope, which is always nonviolent, exposes in  >
< its powerlessness, the lies, fraud and coercion employed by the state. Hope >
< knows that an injustice visited on our neighbor is an injustice visited on  >
< all of us. Hope posits that people are drawn to the good by the good. This  >
< is the secret of hope's power. Hope demands for others what we demand for   >
< ourselves. Hope does not separate us from them. Hope sees in our enemy      >
< our own face.                                                               >
<         ― Chris Hedges                                                      >
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