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Since 1998 I've been sending out these reflections first thing each
week--one or more quotes plus my thoughts about the intersections and
contradictions. They're archived here back to 2002, and a new one is
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Quote #1232 - #ResistanceMaking
06 Apr, 2026
RESISTANCE MAKING
"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
Elie Wiesel
"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."
Claude M. Bristol
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Alice Walker
We can learn from the grass,
tiny fragile blades that somehow manage
to push through the cracks
in the cement of
the sidewalk.
We can learn from water, wearing down
mountains
into sand,
from little droplets becoming floods,
oceans,
tidal waves.
We can learn from all upheavals from struggles for justice
because they only seem inevitable in hindsight--
while they are happening they feel grueling
if not impossible.
We can learn from Elie Wiesel, who
shared his bread in the concentration camp so more people
could eat some
instead of hording it so he
could eat fully.
It's interesting that most of my MMQs about resistance
in the first fifteen plus years of these quotings
and writings
are about negative resistance,
resistance to change, to shifting perspective,
to honoring other people's voices and visions
as well as one's own.
Now, since 2016, we experience resistance more and more
from the other side,
resistance to reactionary forces, authoritarian forces,
the powers-that-be's desperate attempts
to pull the country and all of us
back into
the worst version of ourselves.
We cannot become the worst version of ourselves
in our attempts at resistance, for
even that is a way of their triumphancy.
We must resist,
as we do,
with all the strength and persistence in us, but also
with all the grace, empathy, and humility we
can muster.
It is the only way we can save not just the country
but our selves.
Shellen Lubin
April 6, 2026
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