There are big, important causes that are loud and should be. What Colin Kaepernick started. What students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas are doing. The #MeToo movement. The fight to find a cure for ALS. So many.
There are smaller, quieter causes that might pale by comparison yet still are wrongs in need of remedy, wrongs worth noticing, wrongs worth somebody caring about.
I have been on this soapbox with a bulhorn before, in a column in 2015. All that has changed since is that Howard Schnellenberger is three years closer to leaving us without ever knowing he got what he was due.