But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the audience, and hereโs the definition we all came up with: hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.
Derrick JensenThe big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.
Derrick Jensen