If you don’t like it, don’t leave. Stay and fight to make it better.
The reality is that all of America’s social and political progress is owed to people who saw problems, criticized them, but did not leave. Instead they stayed and sacrificed much, many losing their lives in order to bring about very much needed change. They were also told to leave. Fortunately, they didn’t.
Our founders didn’t like what they saw, and instead of leaving, they fought the Revolutionary War to change it. They ultimately wrote and ratified a constitution that guaranteed free speech — to all residents, not just citizens. The Founders saw free speech, assembly, and press as the most vital civil rights, without which there would be no democracy.
The abolitionists didn’t like their country allowing plantation owners to purchase human beings and force them into slavery. They did not leave. They fought the Civil War to change it. Thousands died in that fight against slavery. They won, and they made the USA better.
