cultureofresistance:

One day I was just sobbing, and I called up a friend of mine, Jeanette Armstrong, who is an Okanagan Indian, writer and activist. 
I said to her, “This work is just killing me. It’s breaking my heart.”
And she said, “Yeah, it’ll do that.”
And I said, “The dominant culture hates everything, doesn’t it?”
And she said, “Yeah, it does. Even itself.”
And I said, “It has a death urge, doesn’t it?”
And she said, “Yeah, it does.”
And I said, “Unless it’s stopped it’s going to kill everything on the planet, isn’t it?”
And she said, “Yeah, it is. Unless it’s stopped.” 
And then I said, “We’re not going to make it to some great new glorious tomorrow, are we?”

And she thought for a moment and then she said the best thing she could possibly say, which was, “I’ve been waiting for you to say that.”

- Derrick Jensen