I forgive us the arrogance that allowed us to think we could create revolution by sheer force of will and example—a tendency we sometimes called “voluntarism.” Those were parts of our attempt to find our own place in the whirlwind of change swirling across the globe. We stepped forward, saying, “Okay, I’ll risk. And if we fail, I won’t abandon our principles or those who fall.” It’s what it means to live in this world, what underlies solidarity, that wonderful quality of being human. That, in Safiya’s words, is worth fighting for.
