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  • ngwoo@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldGet Out the Vote, Doc
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    26 days ago

    Brown v Board was won in the supreme court. The Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts both only passed because they had enough votes to overcome filibusters. Without a federal government friendly to the civil rights movement the south would have been allowed to continue murdering activists with impunity.


  • ngwoo@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldGet Out the Vote, Doc
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    Then you end up in prison and get your wish of not being able to vote while not succeeding at changing anything.

    Life doesn’t have grand prizes. You can’t just do a revolution and then get everything you want all at once. Progress is incremental. Even for history’s successful violent revolutionaries progress took generations and you’re not one of those.