Raise your voice of protest

Protesters on Atlantic Avenue, Boston, on Oct. 3, 2011

— Photo by Tim Pierce 

“The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.”

— Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American author, social critic and Harvard professor