In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.
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Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.
To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.
Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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.
Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
Groups tend to believe their work is harder, more strategic, or just more valuable while underestimating those contributions from other groups.
Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.
Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values.
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