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I read this afterwards and thought of how this book highlights a few examples of people pulling us towards more hope.
I especially liked this section:
Since most of us lack this kind of extraordinary courage, and the willingness to risk losing everything, we should be profoundly grateful to these few individuals. They are the last bastions of civil society. As Feinstein puts it, “It has fallen to them to keep alive the remnants of their failing civil societies. In doing so, they remind their fellow citizens, cowed by authoritarian governments or criminal gangs, that all may not be lost.” These extraordinary individuals leave the rest of us feeling humbled and indebted. We owe it to them at the very least to be aware of their work.