You and I must not allow any palliatives, huckstered as "just as good." To disguise the near despair in which we are called to make our way, a near despair named hope. Hope which is constantly being delayed and betrayed in such a world. Hope which does not lean upon contrived utopias or money or ego, or a religion which has no argument with the iron bound rule: things as they are.
— Thomas Merton, Testimony by Daniel Berrigan