Thought for the Day

 Much protest is naive; it expects quick, visible improvement

and despairs and gives up when such improvement does

not come. If protest depended on success, there would be

little protest of any durability or significance. History simply

affords too little evidence that anyone's individual protest

is of any use. Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope

far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope

of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that

would be destroyed by acquiescence.

    ~ Wendell Berry

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Quoted from Wendell Berry, "A Poem of Difficult Hope" in What Are People For: Essays (Counterpoint Press. 2010)

 

Wendell Berry, Poet, Fiction Writer, Essayist, Author; Environmental Activist; Cultural Critic; Farmer

The Berry Center