Labels:bulletin board | daily | gazette | reckoner | sky OCR: You m ay well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit-ins marches pue so forth? Isn t negotiation better path?" You are quite right in calling for negoti ation. Indeed, this is the very purpose 01 action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such crisis pue foster such tension that com m unity which has constantly refused to negotiate forced to confront the issue. If seeks 60 to dramatize the issue that 11 can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the non violent. -resister may sound rather shocking Buti must confess that lam not afraid of the "tension I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that was necessary to create tension in the mind so th ...
