It is fear made manifest on the body. Power can be taken, but not given. Personal accomplishment is almost impossible in the human categories that are maintained collectively in an inferior situation. Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective. That has so far been largely the experience.
Most power is illusionary and perceptual.
You have to create an environment in which people perceive you as having some power. The time to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done. Frances Berry Action is the antidote to despair. I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate.