How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future

by Maria Ressa

How do you decide what to fight for? Sometimes it’s not your choice. You live your way into it because the sum of all your choices brings you to that point.

Meaning is not something you stumble across or what someone gives you; you build it through every choice you make, the commitments you choose, the people you love, and the values you hold dear.

When you take a risk, you have to trust that someone will come to your aid; and when it’s your turn, you will help someone else.

If you don’t have the courage to deliver the news to the people affected by your decision, think twice.

Just because others compromise doesn’t mean you do. Just because they’re silent doesn’t mean you have to be.