Anger can bring healing. When there is hurting, when there is wrong, when the ills of society get us so worked up we pour into the streets in anger, then is when change will come. The warts of society fester until we find them so offensive, we treat them with a balm called public protest.
When a nation rises in protest, the powers that be will bend.
Has it ever been so? From the first revolution, outrage has healed America. We shed the injustices of tyranny first with such protests as the Boston Tea Party and then with war. We cast off slavery only with war, and dispersed much of the discrimination against blacks only with marches and banners and outcry in the public square. We gave women the right to vote only after they stood up with pickets and shouted.
Protest has helped make America great. If there are wrongs that remain, we must not think they will be healed in our silence.
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