When you realize that their schools, universities, political system and media are made to prevent you to be a fighter like Aaron Swartz; you have a very good start to unwind the vicious circle that they call Freedom, Reason, Science, Art and Democracy.
Aaron Swartz (1986–2013)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet's_Own_Boy:_The_Story_of_Aaron_Swartz
The whole documentary
Or here since it is usually taken away from YouTube.
https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz
Some of them that participate in the documentary.
Brewster Kahle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle
Carl Malamud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Malamud
Cory Doctorow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow
Lawrence Lessig
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig
And read this:
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)
Full text: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm