Well, in accordance to wisdom and rationality I never claimed any tactic to be absolute nor meant to invalidate being a refugee. And generally agreeing with K9s thoughts above, I would also add the importance of Timing into the mix. Picking up roots (to rift on Max's fascinating article) entails giving up a lot of what is emotionally meaningful for us as humans for a chance at setting roots once again. So I'm sure most everyone would agree that running should be the option of last resort.
The sentiment that Maccabee expressed is one PRIOR to selling our homes and possessions to flee as a basic act of survival. To fight for what you believe in your heart is the basis of all human progress; folks like us inherently know this in our hearts. Fighting out of reactionary fear of The Other is the the hallmark of a regressive policy, the antithesis of what we believe in, yet also carries a shade of "survival" in it. So it is always important to be mindful of why we are fighting.
Yet I do believe it is important to plan to fight before making plans to retreat since inherent in the strategy to regroup is the idea to engage in another battle sometime in the future. So to state the obvious, engaging in and facing our challenges with courage is ultimately what life is all about.
And with regard to the Jews in Europe before WWII, we as HS students in America learned the one's who fled Germany before and after Kristalinacht were the one's who avoided the concentration camps and gas chambers. Some of us also learned of the SS St. Louis in 1939 which was a stain of shame for humanity but for the Jews merely underscored how even running can be futile. But along the lines of Timing being the key issue, we all learned that during a limited window of opportunity at the beginning of an evil regime if enough people/countries stood up against the Nazi policy of hatred and persecution of minorities, the holocaust could have been averted. So once again, standing up in defense of what you believe in while you have the time and opportunity should supplant running as the option of last resort when you must give up everything you've worked to achieve in the world
Re: What's the worst you really think would happen?
176"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent." -Gandhi