Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
We are winning,β said the graffiti in Seattle, not βWe have won.β Itβs a way of telling in which you can feel successful without feeling smug, in which you can feel challenged without feeling defeated.