President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) once said that “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” This highly quotable maxim from America’s 16th president, who led the United States during its destructive conflict to cure itself, particularly its cotton kingdom in the south, of the debauched institution of chattel slavery, perfectly encapsulates in twenty-eight words the force that animates resistance in general: not being fooled about the true character of whatever is being resisted. That is, to ultimately recognize a thing for what it truly is and not for what it claims to be, and have the fortitude to resist it.
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