One of
the better books that I’ve read in a long time about activism at the grassroots
level is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook For American Revolutionaries by Naomi
World. I purchased it a year or two ago
when I was in Philadelphia, visiting The Betsy Ross House.
She
writes: We must “rediscover our role as American Revolutionaries and to reclaim
the America in ourselves – in our consciousness as free men and women.”
Amen.
She
encourages civil literacy and for people to continually be educated about
liberty.
Her book
advocates for learning about how our government functions and enlightens us to
be active participants of a change movement.
She provides the ideas, inspiration, and resources on how to do just
that.
She
cautions that the Declaration of Independences granted us the right to the
pursuit of happiness, but there’s also an obligation that goes with it.
It is a
fabulously well-written, well-informed, well-intentioned book. I conclude with her words here:
“We are
not to wait for others to lead. You and
I are meant to take back the founders’ mandate, and you and I are meant to
lead. You and I must protest, you and I
must confront our representatives, you and I must run for office, you and I
must write the op-eds; you and I must take over the battle. The founders – the unknown as well as the
well-known Americans who ‘conceived’ the nation in liberty – did not intend for
us to delegate worrying about the Constitution to a cadre of constitutional
scholars, or to leave debate to a class of professional pundits, or to leave
the job of fighting for liberty to a caste of politicians. They meant for us to debate the issues of the day, and for us to rise up against tyranny: the American who delivers the mail;
the American who teaches our children; ordinary people."
We need to lead the next revolution.
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