Each uprising of the people informs and seeds the others, especially in the age of the Internet. In Tunisia, word of an act of righteous indignation—a vendor who set himself on fire to protest the unjust confiscation of his property—spread like wildfire over Facebook and ultimately ended the regime of a tyrant. During the Civil Rights Movement, we didn’t have the Internet. We did not have iPhones or computers. We didn’t even have fax machines. We had no power of celebrity, no money. But we had ourselves. So we used what we had. We put our bodies on the line for simple justice and social
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