Abramson illustrated resilience with multiple stories beyond her own. She spoke of Patrick Song, a Chinese journalist for The New York Times who was detained by authorities simply for doing truthful reporting, then came right back to work the next day. 'I did what I believe, and that makes me fearless,' he told her. She described Dana Lerner, whose nine-year-old son Cooper was killed by a cab in New York, and who was already working on new street safety legislation just months later. She invoked her professional heroes: Nan Robertson and Katharine Graham, women who faced discrimination in a far more hostile newspaper industry and went on to win Pulitzer Prizes. And Jim Risen, standing up against a government leak investigation. Each example built a cumulative case: human beings have a capacity for recovery that we consistently underestimate.