People are too readily resigned to fatality. They are too ready to believe that, after all, nothing but bloodshed makes history progress and that the stronger always progresses at the expense of the weaker.  Such fatality exists, perhaps.

But man's task is not to accept it or to bow to its laws ... The task of men of culture and faith, in any case, is not to desert historical struggles nor to serve the cruel and inhuman elements in those struggles.

It is rather to remain what they are, to help man against what is oppressing him, to favor freedom against the fatalities that close in upon him.

- Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion & Death