My outlook on life and politics changed a lot when I learned that outside competition and inside pressure, such as from the USSR and the Suffragettes respectively, is the only reason women got the handful of rights that they now have, and then seeing the same pattern with every other issue.

When we ask for a compromise, we get nothing. Streets being renamed to "black lives matter" and empty land acknowledgments. But when we demand and fight for actual, unabridged justice, we can actually get concessions, actual "harm reduction", if you like, even when we fail.