But sometimes, it’s time to give up on persuading anyone else behind the scenes. It’s time to get mad and let everyone else know about it. There are dissents that rose above their times, like in the Dred Scott case in 1857, when seven justices ruled that people of African descent were property and could never be citizens, or in 1896’s Plessy v. Ferguson, where the majority upheld the doctrine of separate but equal. Those dissenters stopped speaking to their fellow justices and started speaking to the public, hoping the future would vindicate them.
