Hessel will also be remembered for showing that successful activism has never been the exclusive preserve of the young. In an interview in 2011, he said: “It is proper for the young to listen to the very old ones who tell them, ‘We have been resisters at a time where there was fascism or Stalinism. You must find the things that you will not accept, that will outrage you. And these things, you must be able to fight against nonviolently, peacefully, but determinedly.’”