Every social revolution in American history — whether civil rights in the 1960s, woman’s voting rights in the 1880s, the abolitionists in the 1850s, or the anti-child labor movement of the 1900s — used incendiary rhetoric, offensive images and clamorous activism.
What do you picture when you think of the civil rights movement? Lunch counter sit-ins; illegal marches; women getting arrested; black men being hung by the Ku Klux Klan; police with billy clubs; dogs biting protesters, water cannons and a lot of bad press.
Believe me, if I could figure out a way to burn a bra and have it draw attention to the injustice of slaughtering the unborn, I would do it.
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