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uspol (+ if doing a lot of difficult work sounds more appealing than doomsaying) 

"It would be naive to depend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people, women, people of color, dissenters of all kinds. Those rights only come alive when citizens organize, protest, demonstrate, strike, boycott, rebel, and violate the law in order to uphold justice." -- progressive.org/op-eds/howard-

Zinn has a real good point there. Progress was going to come from us, not the system, no matter what.

uspol (+ if doing a lot of difficult work sounds more appealing than doomsaying) 

@zebratron2084
This is very true... but I'd still prefer to not have the nagging feeling that I should be carrying a scythe while advocating for such changes.

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