When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
- C. P. Snow
Wow! This is something to think about. The first thing that came to mind was the Jim Jones and the People's Temple mass suicide of more than 900 followers in Jonestown, Guyana in November 1978. If you don't know about this historical event, google it or check out this link, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones. The next person I thought of was Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust. Millions of people were massacred for the sake of a evil idealogy.
On the other hand, the consistent rebellion of the likes of Harriet Tubman, William Wilberforce and other abolitionists like them who rebelled against the notion of one man/person owning another resulted in the eventual freedom of African slaves.
What do you think? Can you think of some people or events that either support or disprove C.P. Snow's quote?
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