Storytelling’s the fuel, not the spark, for real change. People don’t care about statistics; they care about the person who’s hurting, the dream that’s being chased, the injustice that’s happening to a kid in a city they’ll never see. A narrative turns abstract policy into a face you can feel, and that emotional hook makes people stand up, vote, march, or write back. So if you want activism to move beyond hashtags, craft stories that hit the gut and then back them with facts. That’s the only way the fire stays burning long enough to light a revolution.