>The only way you can defeat those ideas is not by taking away their voice, but to let them speak. >We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt

>The only way you can defeat those ideas is not by taking away their voice, but to let them speak. >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 all 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. -Dr. King, Letter From a Birmingham Jail