Have you ever participated in a protest?

And from what you can remember, were any of those protests successful in reaching their end goals? I see some comments on here saying that protests are ineffective.

@hiddenkitty: The Vietnam War ended. Apartheid ended and marriage equality came to pass. We stopped certain stores and banks from actively discriminating, at least, and other companies started hiring more women and people of color. So in that sense, yes, it was effective. The protests recently, from my perspective, have been more just to express our feelings about the upcoming administration and bring attention to our concerns. That's pretty much all that can be done. But anyone who says civil disobedience is ineffective is clearly ignorant about U.S. history from the late 1950s going forward.

Okay. Good to know. I was just curious to hear from people who've been in protests considering how many I've heard about in the news over the past year.