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Wendell Berry on protest

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one’s own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.

— From the essay “A Poem Of Difficult Hope” in Berry’s book What Are People For?

Published in Poetry Politics & Activism

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