RESIST! Peaceful Acts That Changed Our World
Aspiring activists everywhere will find hope and inspiration in RESIST!, a collection of 21 brief, compelling essays on figures from the past and present who found peaceful ways of fighting injustice. They were imprisoned for disobeying evil laws, they led strikes, called for boycotts, marched in protest, and refused to give up their seats on buses and at lunch counters. They made videos and films, wrote books, recorded songs, created art, blogged, tweeted, filed lawsuits, and started websites. One smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.
Thanks to these courageous men, women, and children who would not remain silent in the face of injustice, slavery was abolished, women and minorities gained the right to vote, tyrants were overthrown, governments and laws were changed for the better, and thousands of lives have been saved.
Here are a few of their stories: Harriet Tubman; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Woody Guthrie; Mohandas Gandhi; Irena Sendler; The Hollywood Ten; Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks; Ruth Bader Ginsburg; The Greensboro Lunch Counter Sitters; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Larry Itliong, Dolores Huerta, and César Chávez; Richard Oakes and the Occupation of Alcatraz; the Tree-Sitters of Pureora; Father Luis Olivares and the Sanctuary Movement; Tank Man of Tiananmen Square; Nelson Mandela; Ryan White; Ai Weiwei; The “It Gets Better” Project; March for Our Lives; and Greta Thunberg.
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