At least once in your life you will be given a meaningful option of between "stand up to power" and "submit to power". Choosing the former you will always lose

At least once in your life you will be given a meaningful option of between "stand up to power" and "submit to power". Choosing the former you will always lose, that's the entire point of power. But this is the exact point of choosing to stand up to power. It's knowing that you'll lose and asserting that perhaps there is another power that stands above the person standing over you. I've been in this position, stood up and lost. But I can assure you that there is something you do take away from this that stays with you far longer than anything you might gain by submitting.