Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

Chomsky frames political dissent not as the province of exceptional “heroes,” but as a practical possibility for ordinary people. The line shifts the moral burden onto those who recognize the harms of imperial or hegemonic projects: if one both anticipates the consequences and finds the project morally repugnant, then abstention becomes ethically suspect. The emphasis on “feasible” resistance underscores his recurring argument that power depends on public compliance and manufactured consent, and that even small acts—organizing, speaking, refusing complicity—can matter. The reference to “American hegemony” situates the claim within his broader critique of U.S. foreign policy and the normalization of intervention as benevolent leadership.