"Well, one day they give us some beans that was sour. One fella started yellin’, an’ nothin’ happened. He yelled his head off…Then another fella yelled. Well, sir, then we all got yellin’. And we all got on the same tone, an’ I tell ya, it jus’ seems like that tank bulged an’ give and swelled up. By God! Then somepin happened! They come a-runnin’, and they give us some other stuff to eat."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 26. Jim Casy tells a story about his time in jail, how one prisoner protesting about the food failed to achieve any success. But when a group of prisoners protested together they got better food, proving the power of organized resistance.