I resolve never to expect elections alone to change anything, and to understand that my activist work begins the day after an election.
I resolve never to let up until each and every person, including the highest of officials, are held to the same rule of law, war criminals are prosecuted, illegal wars are ended, illegal prisons are closed everywhere, and illegal spying is ceased.
I resolve to speak without self-censorship or preemptive compromise.
I resolve never to kid myself that harmful rhetoric is a means to a helpful end.
I resolve to replace xenophobia with internationalism, corporatism with democracy, and capitalism with socialism.
I resolve to resist cruelty and greed at all levels, in all conversations.
I resolve not to categorize people, including elected officials, as good or bad, but to vehemently agree and disagree with each of them.
I resolve to oppose all tendencies toward violence as strongly as all tendencies toward defeatism, apathy, or misguided strategy.
I resolve to go to jail for justice.
I resolve to do everything I can to inform and educate and learn from others on a personal level and through mass communications.
I resolve not to waste a second on frustration, bitterness, or wise pessimism.
I resolve to value the solidarity of struggle.
Join me, won't you?
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