Resistance is not raising up an army and trading fire, by that time too many have needlessly suffered — as will many more. Resistance is inviting someone you’ve been taught (and are expected) to hate to your table and treating her as a friend. The people you need to resist, to this end, are your own.
— Pam, 2018
Addendum. When I wrote the above paragraph, the people I shared it with invariably agreed. Some enthusiastically. I’ve since learned something about this enthusiasm – it’s not always but often an expression of approval of a lesson “the other guy” needs to learn. Oh, the irony.
Related:
“Which is the more pitiful I cannot decide — being accused because of a friendship, or accusing a friend.”
Tacitus. The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero. Oxford World’s Classics. Translated by J.C. Yardley. Introduction and notes by Anthony A. Barrett. Oxford University Press Inc.: New York. 2008. (Book Six, Chapter 6, p 182)
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