Labels:reckoner | sky | web site 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 calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such crisis and foster such tension that community which has constantly refused t0 negoti iate forced to conf ron the issue seeks to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored My citing the creation o tension as part of the work of the nonviolent -resister may sound rather shocking But I must confess that am not afraid of the pord "tension. tiation constantl negotiate confi
