World Can't Wait- Or Can It?

Going back home tomorrow just in time to excercise the First. Last September I protested alongside 200,000 people in Washington DC, and I swear the world barely got the memo. I recently had a conversation with a fellow American and he "seriously doubted" there were that many people. Which page in history will we be buried in this time? And why are some of these protests at 5 in the afternoon if everyone is suppose to "walk out of school, take off work?" In the meantime, I still find this quote as relevent as ever:

"All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable...If one were to tell me that this was a bad government because it taxed certain foreign commodities brought to its ports, it is most probable that I should not make an ado about it, for I can do without them. All machines have their friction; and possibly this does enough good to counter-balance the evil. At any rate, it is a great evil to make a stir about it. But when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer. In other words, when a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army." -Henry D. Thoreau, Civil Disobedience.