The Fight To Change: Summary

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The play starts with five hippie kids sitting in a circle smoking and discussing the world problems. Behind them a huge protest is taking place.

Starchild/Stacy: I mean, I just don't understand, everybody should be equal and everyone deserves the same rights!
Moonbeam/Michael – Yea, we are all human beings and those things shouldn't matter.
Stoney – Yea like you know man, things are messed up. Were like fightin the man and things gotta change.
Sam/Samantha – Well that's what we are doing here, things do have to change. We want equal rights for everyone, and all races, and we wont be stopped by the man!
Tom – This is a revolution and “Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.” – Mohandas Gandhi - nonviolent movements can lead to meaningful systemic change. I mean remember in 1930 when Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi led a peaceful
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Sam You wanna come with me?
Sam – Sure why not.
Starchild kisses Moonbeam and her and Sam exit stage left
Tom – (starts rambling on and on)There are times when one person’s peaceful actions can bring about more change than anyone can imagine. Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., and Martin Luther King Jr. delivered perhaps the most famous speech in American history, his “I Have a Dream” address was one of the most amazing things I've ever...
Moonbeam – (interrupts tom) I'm going to Marry that girl and we are going to travel the world fighting for freedom and we are going to change the world. I sure do love her.
Stoney – whoawa man, really? Like are you sure you wanna do that man? That's like gonna mess everything up.
Tom – Shut up Stoney, you don't know what you are talking about. If he loves her than its up to him.
Moonbeam – ya man, shut up, its just going to make everything way better.
Tom – well, if we are gonna change the world we better get off our asses and do

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