Otherwise people sat on the floor.

This community is just demonstrating time and again how much they want their library services. They demonstrate it with their feet.

It was the token move. We had a human chain.

In 1981 ... I sat in the House chamber when another new president talked to the American people about stimulating the economy,

This is nothing new. Since the Greeks, people sat on a hillside with a basket to eat and watch Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles.

Some people sat on their roof for up to seven days with intense heat, snakes and mosquitoes.