Look, these are desperate and chaotic times. History has left us no operating manual, no step-by-step instructions. Nothing is promised, nothing is guaranteed, everything we have ever fought for is in danger or already in ruins. We have to find our own way -- maybe a new way. That can be scary, that can definitely be lonely.
But there is a way in which we are not alone. When we stand on principle -- no matter how unpopular that principle may be, no matter how much it separates us from the crowd -- and I mean principles like socialism, like racial and gender justice -- we are sending a message to people we do not know -- to people who are far away (as far as Chiapas or Nigeria perhaps) and to people who are not born yet. And that message is: You are not alone. We too have worked and dreamed for something better. That message is: Never give up
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