The author takes a simple quote from Huck Finn to illustrate in a very gentle way how rebellious acts can create major changes in the world--a lesson many of us need to learn.
Change always seems impossible, at least change that benefits the many instead of the few. But there are instances of change that we can look back upon. Slavery was considered to be natural and expected, but through an incomprehensible number of disobedient acts, the collective delusion was lifted. Individuals found a moral compass removed from the shroud of society.