First They Call You Racist Then They Starve You To Death and we just sit there and take it. Put down your phone. Look at your life. Its waiting for you.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking:
What would things have been like if every Security operative,
when he went out at night to make an arrest,
had been uncertain whether he would return alive
and had to say good-bye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example
in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city,
people had not simply sat there in their lairs,
paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door
and at every step on the staircase,
but had understood they had nothing left to lose
and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall
an ambush of half a dozen people
with axes, hammers, pokers,
or whatever else was at hand?...
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage
of officers and transport and, notwithstanding
all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have
ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough.
And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation....
We purely and simply deserved everything that happened
afterward.”
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956