Alone, you can fight,
You can refuse, you can
Take revenge you can
But they roll over you.
But two people fighting
Back to back can cut through
A mob, a snake-dancing file
Can break a cordon, an army
Can meet an army.
Two people can keep each other
Sane, can give support, conviction,
Love, massage, hope, sex.
Three people are a delegation,
A committee, a wedge. With four
You can play bridge and start
An organization. With six
You can rent a whole house,
Eat pie for dinner with no
Seconds and hold a fund-raising party.
A dozen make a demonstration.
A hundred fill a hall.
A thousand have solidarity and your own newsletter;
Ten thousand, power and your own paper;
A hundred thousand, your own media;
Ten million, your own country.
It goes on one at a time,
It starts when you care
To act; it starts when you do
It again and they said no,
It starts when you say We
And know who you mean, and each
Day you mean one more. ~Marge Piercy The Low Road