'SUBLIME MADNESS' -- To Young People On The Battered Front Lines Of Decency In Our Lost, Sick & Fascist Nation
We must come to a place where it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong.
Staying Power - by Mr. Fish
EDITOR’S NOTE: If you know a courageous young person who has been at one of the encampments protesting the US/Israeli genocide, please forward this to them. — Mark Taylor
To resist radical evil, as you are doing, is to endure a life that by the standards of the wider society is a failure. It is to defy injustice at the cost of your career, your reputation, your financial solvency and at times your life. It is to be a lifelong heretic. And, perhaps this is the most important point, it is to accept that the dominant culture, even the liberal elites, will push you to the margins and attempt to discredit not only what you do, but your character.
By Chris Hedges
The Chris Hedges Report (5/10/24)
This is a sermon I gave Sunday April 28 at a service held at the encampment for Gaza at Princeton University. The service was organized by students from Princeton Theological Seminary.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
— Fredrick Douglass
LISTEN TO THE COURAGE & WISDOM OF THIS UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO STUDENT
6-minute video the Due Dissidence podcast.
Protest camps have been springing up at universities around the UK too -- large ones at Cambridge and Oxford -- this is a brave generation