In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

