except to try

" There is no true failure when attempts to build a different world do not reach the lofty goals of those who plan them; there is only true failure if pursuit of those plans entails the abandonment of respect, or reliance upon control and domination, or an attempt to build harmful absolutes. Ultimately, to do nothing is itself failure; to risk oneself and become unsettled is a success in and of itself. There is no one way to be an ally, just as there is no one way to be colonial. There is not one single struggle against imperialism, and so there is  no one single solution to these struggles. No one solution, that is, except to try."

Adam Barke, as published in Lynne Davis' Book Alliances Re/Envisioning Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships.