" 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 to the open, where it can be seen and dealt with ...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. " [bold emphasis added]
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter From a Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963.