"I do not believe the wicked always win. I believe our despair is a lie
we are telling ourselves. In many other periods of history, people,
ordinary citizens, routinely set aside hours, days, time in their lives
for doing the work of politics, some of which is glam and revolutionary
and some of which is dull and electoral and tedious and not especially
pure--and the world changed because of the work they did. That's what
we're starting now. It requires setting aside the time to do it, and
then doing it. Not any single one of us has to or possibly can save the
world, but together in some sort of concert, in even
not-especially-coordinated concert, with all of us working where we see
work to be done, the world will change. And we have to do it by showing
up places, our bodies in places, turn off the fucking computers, leave
the Web and the 'Net--and show up, our bodies at meetings and demos and
rallies and leafleting corners.

"Because this is a moment in history that needs us to begin, each of us
every day at her or his own pace, slowly and surely rediscovering how to
be politically active, how to organize our disparate energies into
effective group action--and I choose to believe we will do what is
required. Act. Organize. Assemble. Oppose. Resist. Find a place a cause
a group a friend and start, today, now now now, continue continue
continue. Being politically active is for the citizens of a democracy
maybe the best way of speaking to God and hearing Her answer: You exist.
If we are active, if we are activist, She replies to us: You
specifically exist. Mazel tov. Now get busy, She replies. Maintain the
world by changing the world."

--Tony Kushner
from "Despair Is A Lie We Tell Ourselves"
December 08, 2004
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/despair_is_a_lie_we_tell_ourselves.php