What Was the Most Influential Act of Protest in History?
A big question
Feb 09, 2018
2 minutes
Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and author
The protests against the Stamp Act in 1765, which inevitably led to the creation of the United States a decade later.
Harry Leslie Smith, World War II veteran, activist, and author, Harry’s Last Stand
Like in our own era, corruption and nepotism were reportedly hammered to the door of Wittenberg Castle Church, which instigated the Reformation, our modern democratic world might never have germinated.
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