Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
             None but ourselves can free our minds
             Cause none of them can stop the time
             How long shall they kill our prophets
             These lyrics are from Bob Marley's Redemption Song, paraphrased they outline the question "How long will they kill our future while we stand aside and look?" The answer is NO MORE. No more can people stand back in the shadows and let governments run their lives. Citizens today should go, must go to any extent possible to express their disagreement with the government because it isn't the government's world; it's the people's world. Government has been an essential part to any civilization for as long as human kind has existed. People who disagree with the government have existed for just as long. Whether the government was so simple that the leader was the strongest in the tribe, or whether the government was so complex that it involved thousands of people to make one decision, it always was challenged and eventually changed. The means of change are quite diverse: protests, assassinations, strikes, destruction of property, boycotting, mass marches, organized lobby!
             ing groups, and anarchic actions are amongst the large list of means for governmental reform. All attempts at reform fall into two categories; violent and non-violent. No matter what the means of change one thing holds constant, without a fight, there will be no kind of revolution from the oppression.
             A prime example of citizens who did not fight against the oppressive ways of their government was in Germany. The National Socialist Party was a very influential party in German history, and soon became a very popular party amongst the people. Once the Nazis had the people's support they began to make some very poor decisions but they were in such a high level of prestige that no one dared to show their disagreement. One really notable mistake they made was a seri...