
Michele Moody-Adams, "Making Space for Justice: Social Movements, Collective Imagination, and Political Hope" (Columbia UP, 2022)
New Books in Philosophy
The Point of Nonviolent Resistance Is to Create Tension in the Community
The way you're just speaking sort of reminds me of Martin Luther King in the letter from Birmingham Jail, when he talks about it's the point of the nonviolent resistance is to create tension in the community. We need to remember that they social movements can play a corrective role, and that their corrective role can succeed often because they are actually embodiment of the rationality that we're actually ignoring. I think it's very sacratic. It's not merely resisting segregation policies, although it does involve all that it's doing those things for the sake that for the sake of being to attention,.
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