You May Well Ask: 'why Direct Action? Why Sit Ins - Marches And So Forth? Isn't Negotiation A Better Path?' You Are Quite Right In Calling For Negotiation. Indeed - This Is The Very Purpose Of Direct Action. Nonviolent Direct Action Seeks To Create Such A Crisis And Foster Such A Tension That A Community Which 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. - Martin Luther King - Jr. - "Letter From A Birmingham Jail" (1963) . Question: What Is A Strategy Reflected In The Passage Above That The Civil Rights Movement Used To Obtain Racial Equality?

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1. You May Well Ask: 'why Direct Action? Why Sit Ins - Marches And So Forth? Isn't Negotiation A Better Path?' You Are Quite Right In Calling For Negotiation. Indeed - This Is The Very Purpose Of Direct Action. Nonviolent Direct Action Seeks To Create Such A Crisis And Foster Such A Tension That A Community Which 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. - Martin Luther King - Jr. - "Letter From A Birmingham Jail" (1963) . Question: What Is A Strategy Reflected In The Passage Above That The Civil Rights Movement Used To Obtain Racial Equality?