" You could pretend that regime didn't exist, or rationalize its excesses away, or seek to insulate yourself through wealth or connections, or flee it and hide, or hope that whatever capricious reason it would crush people other than you.

And all of those things were easy to do. The harder thing by far was to fight - to attract that murderous regime's attention, and become an object of its malice.

But that was the only thing to do. Those who chose something else were hoping that the monster they had ignored would eat them last. "

― Jason Fry , The Last Jedi (Star Wars: Novelizations, #8)