“You can’t change the world without conflict,” Kos once wrote.
"Freedom,” Dr. King once wrote, “Is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
Henry Thoreau, too, knew that systems defend themselves at all costs, until even the truth itself is perceived as a threat to its survival.
“As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind,” he wrote, “So, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.”