The kids marching remind me of this quote by Victor Hugo:

[kentuck]

[Javaman]

1. I think of my dad at these times...

he was a union mechanic for the NYC dept of sanitation.

"sure, you can be a gas engine but you can never stop a diesel".

[poboy2]

2. ideas are bulletproof

V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh, Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.

V: People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Evey: We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world.

Evey's Father: Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

[ffr]

3. Conservatives have awoken a sleeping giant, the demographic that is today's youth.

Link to tweet

Students at Livingston High School in New Jersey sing an adaptation of Brian Stokes Mitchell’s “Make Them Hear You" as part of their walkout. #NationalWalkoutDay

[ewagner]

4. Thanks for the reminder...

I hate to use this analogy but it seems that our country has behaved like an alcoholic...

we are/were binging on nationalism, greed and bigotry and we kept "OD-ing" on it from the time of Reagan...

the only time we were willing to change is when we hit rock bottom...

I cannot think of anything more rock-bottom than Trump:

Rampant, blatant corruption

Treason right out in the open.

Ignorance treated as a virtue.

We've hit rock bottom...it's time to sober up and get back to our true values...

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. Keep your 'thoughts and prayers'. Organize! Horray for the kids from all the schools protesting

today. May they have the fortitude to continue.