From Howard Zinn’s, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (2006), via today’s newsletter from Odin Zackman’s DIG IN:

I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning.

To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world.