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It’s not great battles or epically heroic stands that give birth to freedom. Those battles and stands are amalgamations and focal points of small acts of courage and seemingly insignificant refusals to tolerate tyranny.

Acts such as these girls displayed.

I wish them well because they are where freedoms starts.

A small, first application of what we might call the Solzhenitsyn Solution:

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” — Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Ah, yes....I read that years ago....and forgot about it.

I’m sure I was sub-consciously plagiarizing the idea, and re-wording it romantically to satisfy a need to express it because I was in a foul mood and the flippancy of some of the comments was ticking me off.

I’m glad you brought that quote back to me...The idea means infinitely more coming from Solzhenitsyn.

"“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if [people] had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and...” — Alexandr Solzhenitsyn "

Liberals always think this way WAY TOO LATE!!