notes:  Variations:  

In Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, 'Who cares which bus seat you take? That won't stop segregation.'

 'Why dump all that good tea in the Bay?   How's that going to win us independence from England?'

'Why refuse to buy a nice South African diamond?  That won't end apartheid.'

Cynical statements like these, though perhaps literally accurate, ignore the interplay between tactics and strategy, power relations, and the growth of social movements.

source:   paraphrasing and inspired by David Roberts, Grist.