Words alone not enough to effect change

The UNC protesters who brought down Silent Sam should have quietly worked with the powers-that-be, those powers argued this week. Anything else was “mob rule” leading to “violent riots.”
“Only a civil society that adheres to the rule of law can heal these (racial) wounds,” Senate leader Phil Berger admonished.
What if historic figures through American history had taken Berger’s advice?
What if Rosa Parks had adhered to the rule of law and given up her seat on the bus that day in Montgomery? How much slower would change have come? What if Martin Luther King hadn’t…