RESISTANCE
But – let’s never discount it – within every official, statistical, designated nation, there breathes another nation: of unappointed, unappeased, unacknowledged clusters of people who daily, with fierce imagination and tenacity, confront cruelties, exclusions, and indignities, signaling through those barriers – which are often literal cages – in poetry, music, street theater, murals, videos, Web sites – and through many forms of direct activism.
–Adrienne Rich, Poetry and Commitment