direct action

is not responsible for creating tension, it merely brings to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive, where it can be seen and dealt with.

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.

is healthy and invigorating, even if it isn't successful.

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action Henry Miller

is meaningless expression of pure energy when practiced without education.

Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.

's purpose is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

is the most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear.

is, as the central principle of anarchism, grounded in a refusal to go through the forms that the society offers you, of representative government, of voting, of legislation, but directly taking power.

There is one central characteristic of anarchism on the matter of means, and that central principle is a principle of direct action - of not going through the forms that the society offers you, of representative government, of voting, of legislation, but directly taking power.

is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements grounded in the belief that you cannot separate means and ends.

The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements. I think one of the most important principles of anarchism is that you cannot separate means and ends. Anarchism requires means and ends to be in line with one another. I think this is in fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of anarchism.

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