h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Seems to be a lot of sneaking around saving folks from unfairness this month!

Oh, true. The Underground Railroad was a major movement. Nobody's ever traced all of the 'stations', but Judge Heath's house got a plaque - especially when somebody renovated the house and found, basically, a 'hiding place' in it.

(The house is a hair salon now.)

It is good to remember that civil disobedience takes a lot of different forms, and goes back a really long way, everywhere in the world.

Different people telling a similar story through different *holes*!

Hey, cool, yeah!

What you said reminds me of something Philip K Dick did in 'Time Out of Joint': his character, Ragel Gumm, can predict where a supposedly random set of missile attacks will come. Everybody else is trying to do it mathematically, but he says his insight is 'aesthetic'. It's all about looking at patterns.

It's interesting, this question. If there is injustice, do you oppose it? Do you break the law if the law is unjust? What risks are you prepared to run?

Hundreds of years of slavery were a tough nut to crack.

I'm glad Ben Franklin was mentioned earlier. Franklin signed a Quaker petition calling for the newly-assembled Congress to get rid of slavery.
He died a few weeks afterward. Congress to only refused to take a stand, but it deferred discussion of the matter many years into the future.

Franklin may have been an ace diplomat, but on some things he would not budge.