To the “Walk Up, Not Out” Crowd...
Boycotting buses in Montgomery was an effective part of a larger civil rights movement. Rosa Parks refused to move almost nine years before the Civil Rights Act was passed.
Suffragettes marched on Washington in 1913, and many were arrested. At the time, countless men scoffed at the "folly of women." Seven years later, women were granted the right to vote in America.
In 1930, Gandhi led a 240-mile march to pick up a handful of salt in an act of profoundly peaceful civil disobedience against British rule in India. They would not leave for seventeen more years, but Gandhi's Salt March was credited as a major catalyst for the end of the British Raj.
Before you talk about "walking up instead of walking out," or say that walkouts don't work, or that they're "just kids," or that they should just stay in class, or that these kinds of protests don't get anything done... learn a little history, will you? Then support these kids.
