Reply #38: They only seem potentially worse because we're living them... [View All]

[IrateCitizen]

... rather than reading about them in some book.

Do you honestly expect resistance to and struggle against injustice to be easy? It never has been, nor will it ever be. As Fredrick Douglass famously remarked, "Power concedes nothing without a fight." So, we should expect a fight, and not delude ourselves that the struggle will be either pretty or easy.

But when we despair, we should also remember the words of Rev. King: "The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice." The current system is crumbling, that is why it appears that those in power are so desperate to cling to it. Although we should realize that they will fight like hell in order to keep power, we should take comfort in the fact that their system is one that has outlived its time, and that its demise is inevitable. We need to all work to ensure that a system based on true justice (peace, after all, is not the mere absence of violence but better defined by the presence of justice) rises in its place.