What if….. social media existed in the Revolution like it does in your generation? Would violence be more common and intense or less? I think that social media would definitely have inflamed the anger that was raging during the Revolution. Propaganda would spread like wildfire, just like it is happening now with your current politics;…

I am most definitely not a member of the disenfranchised community, and I am not claiming to understand what is going on in your lives. I do not understand what it is like to be a woman, a slave, an African American (or any race other than Caucasian), an uneducated or illiterate person, or poor—I…

I have already defined what it means to be a revolutionary and stated that I am a revolutionary. Now I am going to prove what makes this so. First things first, patriots aren’t the only ones that can be revolutionaries. Loyalists and neutrals can as well, even though we may not want to admit it….

“Pen is stronger than the sword.” I take it you all have heard of the pamphlet by Thomas Paine, Common Sense? Good. That is important. As a friend of Thomas Paine, I can tell you that the journey of writing this pamphlet would have been a much larger struggle if our friends and I had…

Violence, riots, and mobs will never get any one what they want. Violence begets violence, but peace begets peace; we should be slow to anger and quick to listen to one another. We must look for logical and peaceful solutions. It is important for us to critically think and understand the variety of perspectives that…

This is a big one. Being revolutionary means a lot of things to a lot of different people. To me, it means to fight for change on a mass scale, to fight for something that is right and true and will improve humanity or at least promote growth on a small scale. Eventually, one little…

Let us talk about the (what I call) “non-agreements.” I feel it is necessary, as the controversial “‘Non’ Agreements” (there are several so that is what I am calling them) are being passed, and I have read the letter to the farmers from Samuel Seabury. I am not a farmer, and most definitely do not…

The government should be free and exist because we want it to; it exists in order to protect us, to protect our rights. However, before I get into my opinions on when to submit to the government, you need to understand that, in order for it to work properly, it must include 3 things: a…

Hello! My name is Benjamin Rush, and I would like to introduce myself to you all. You might have heard of me before; most commonly known, I am one of the founding fathers and signed the Declaration of Independence. I am also well-renowned for many other reasons. Anyway, I was born the 4th of 7…