“Overlooked in this ominous depiction might be our country’s best- kept secret: in dealing with the most challenging issues of every gener- ation, resistance to duplicitous civil authority and its corporate enablers has defined our quintessential American story.” HistoryRevolutionSocial JusticeResistanceCivil RightsProtestDissentAmerican RevolutionSocial HistoryJeff Biggers Book:Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition Source: Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition
“Third, resistance is a tradition of building blocks; a continuum of action that may not have dislodged injustice in its own time, but whose revolutionary founders left behind the framework and tools for a subsequent generation to take up, and ultimately carry out its vision. We can stand back and admire certain laws and protections now—child labor laws, voter enfranchisement for all, an eight-hour work day, clean water, for example—and appreciate the irreversible process of resistance that not only guaranteed their formation, but fought off the innumerable attacks that once kept them from rising.” Social JusticeResistanceCivil RightsProtestAmerican HistoryJeff Biggers Book:Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition Source: Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition
“Second, resistance defies claims of a single American way; and reminds us that there are many American ways, often conflicting and sometimes deceiving. This is particularly true of resistance movements themselves; splintered by nature, the small and vital acts of resistance, often those of a single person, have their own sources of inspiration. They follow a different timeline in everyone’s life. At their best, resistance movements flow like many rivers into an ocean or historic water- shed event.” Social JusticeResistanceProtestAmerican HistoryDissentJeff Biggers Book:Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition Source: Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition