Role of a protesting visionary activist is to challenge our comfort zone and make us fight against unjust practices today itself well before it is going to be accepted by the society as wrong. That is what Gandhi and Martin Luther King and many leaders did in their day well before what they fought against are now considered unacceptable by all in a society.
(I thought of this when watching the movie Hidden Figures. In the theater, there were noticeable gasps and noises expressing discomfort on the discriminatory treatment of Katherine Johnson and other African American mathematicians in NASA. What is very uncomfortable and injustice in 2017 was totally acceptable in the 1960s. There in lies the vision of those leaders who fought against such ills in the society).
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