Privileged people dont march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy. I had never taken to the streets before ; why bother? And for the first block or two I felt odd, walking in a mass of people, holding a stick with a placard bearing the face of a twenty-two- year - old black mother who bore four illegitimate children. But I was no longer the same person Id been a few weeks earlier. Nor could I go back, even if Id wanted to. My past had been about money, and possessions and status, afflictions that now disturbed me. And so I relaxed and enjoyed the walk. I chanted with the homeless, rolled and pitched my placard in perfect unison with the others, and even tried to sing hymns foreign to me. I savored my first exercise in civil protest. It wouldnt be my last. - Michael Brock (John Grisham, The Street Lawyer).
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 10:16:55 +0000
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