From the archive

“I'm not political.” Until they come for you.

Because today people say it about someone else's disaster. Tomorrow that same line is waiting for yours. You spent years being glad the trouble was happening to someone else. Got used to scrolling past, closing the tab, changing the channel. Then you found yourself in a news story everyone else scrolls past just as calmly over breakfast. You really want them to be more attentive than you were. Braver.