In 1963 Martin Luther King JR., one of the leading role models of the civil rights movement, was incarcerated in an Alabama jail on the grounds that he was protesting without a permit. While in jail, in the most unlikely environment, he wrote, to his clergymen, a historic letter which argued his reasons for breaking the law. In his letter, he writes,” Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.” It was argued that his act of defiance was a public display of his lack of willingness to negotiate. While on the contrary, King knew and expressed this in his letter, that it was in fact the community who refused to negotiate. This nonviolent rebellion, was like a man, who rejected and passively ignored, might rightfully raise his voice above a throng in a crowded room. Maybe then would they have no choice, but to bring their selective attention, but attention still, to his corner of the room and listen. A nice little slogan for this might be “Tension grabs attention”. African Americans were sick of being ignored. You can’t negotiate when only one person is talking. So this direct action and this tension was the first step to changing hearts and minds. “…there is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that is was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths…”. Yet still, his clergymen feared, and inquired, in the letter to which King responded, about the timeliness of this direct action. If King were alive in present day, he might have said something like “There is no better time but the present”. If I were King I might have asked a similar question. Wait for what? Wait for them to submit to the undeniable morality of basic human rights?...