This is a time for vigorous positive action. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. In the struggle for justice the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can't expect that you're going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.
Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.
Where the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them. When the freedom they wished for was freedom for responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free.