confront power when we are mostly powerless, when we are so outgunned, outmoneyed, outmaneuvers, outconnected i joined because i believe that con fronting -- confronting power with truth is the least one can do with the privilege we have. when so many who are a fraction of my age are risking their young lives to confront heavily-armed soldiers with rocks, when grown men and women with nothing but their bellies to protest waste away as hunger forces the body to eat itself. i join this lawsuit because i believe in the united states of the civil war period, of its warriors and intellectuals. because the cause of palestine is squarely in the categories of this america. i will close with one last quote by a man, who despite his supremacist ideas, clearly understood something fundamental about palestinians. he said this about us: they look upon palestine with the same instinctive love and true favor the aztecs looked upon mexico or any sioux looked upon his prairie. palestine will remain for the palestinians not a borderland, but their birthplace; the center and basis of their own national existenc