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We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. we merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. we merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
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I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. i'd say, okay, let's get with it, we'll all be nonviolent. but i don't go along with any kind of nonviolence unless everybody's going to be nonviolent. if they make the ku klux klan nonviolent, i'll be nonviolent. if they make the white citizens council nonviolent, i'll be nonviolent. but as long as you've got somebody else not being nonviolent, i don't want anybody coming to me talking any nonviolent talk.
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Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. we merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. we bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
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Be nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to you. and when you can bring me a nonviolent racist, bring me a nonviolent segregationist, then i'll get nonviolent. but don't teach me to be nonviolent until you teach some of those crackers to be nonviolent.
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A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. it does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. but it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. a free culture is not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. the opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture" -- a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past.
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Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. it seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... i am not afraid of the word tension. i have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth.
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Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of anarchism. will it not lead to a revolution? indeed, it will. no real social change has ever come without a revolution. people are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.
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