can you keep on trying when you meet a lot of setbacks?

I do. Being a political organizer, you know you are going to face many setbacks. As they say: "If you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen." As organizing is only the second thing I do well in the world, the other is write. I really don't have any choice other than to keep on keeping on. To do otherwise would be disrespectful to those who came before me and mowed the path, so I can roll down it. There are still struggles, but it's nothing like what they went through. Every time I get fed up, I force myself to remember that.