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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” — Plato. America has always been searching for the light. That is why we have endured so long. We have the stars to guide us, a never changing atlas that smiles with scintillating beauty on all. As America has evolved through the Founding, Constitutional, and Civil Rights eras, as America has sought the stars, freedom has invoked truth. Truth is the light. It is the conduit of freedom. The fuel of light is devotion. Darkness is indifference. It is the conduit of vice. According to John Locke, all are innately endowed with rights and reason, and, as Richard Hooker unfolded, “Things that are equal must be measured by a single standard.” Then, what are humans? — how are we not torn asunder as endowed with both of these contradicting conduits? The human is a constitution of two ideals: the natural man and the divine. The conduits of freedom and indifference all infused into one being; is there a precedent which without the being would reside in all one, or all another? What is the essence of mankind, if itself is the object of destitution? John Locke and Thomas Hobbes philosophized on this. The founding of a Truth so intrinsic to the natural being of both, creates a being with no overpowering zeal of the one to consume the other; the concept that brings us to the factors of both. Our souls are pierced with the conduits of Truth, and the mortal mind with the conduits of vice. We may allow one to prevail over another, to the conduit which stands within; The fuel of light is devotion. This cannot be deceived. “For they that are wise and have received the Truth, and have taken the Holy Spirit,” the conduit of Truth, “for their guide, and have not been deceived—” as was revealed to Joseph Smith “—verily I say unto you, they shall not be hewn down and cast into the fire, but shall abide the day.” The conduit within them shall persist through that which within them gives it life, which gives their life to become of it. The fuel of void flames and “a lake of fire and brimstone,” of emptiness; it is the wraith of indifference. One cannot be all light or all dark, one cannot be both, for to serve with such deceit they serve the power which compels to deceive. According to Hobbes, man is innately and naturally severed from Goodness and Truth, and Truth and Goodness have no place if not introduced by a power of reciprocal. Diffidence ruled, and the soul followed in his world. John Locke pronounced that the soul was a sliver of Truth susceptible to become what prevailed, and that our souls are the conduit through which it becomes. And that which is engrained in one’s essence “shall abide.” It will prevail in them to the conduit which power binds. The soul will come unto its own, and abide its own; the evil unto its own abiding day, and the Good to its. The abiding day of emptiness will restore its essence to those that abide in it. Hobbes claimed that vice within us is the natural state which something must harness, while Locke claimed that each has a place in us: equality is the same basis on which these begin. There is therefore something that binds them together. Fortunately, Hamilton and Madison knew this to be the basis of a people. For a contorted basis of the same endows power to make, not as it was created, Truth to be the essence of one’s invoking; some preeminent force is the basis of a people. What, then, governs them? This is what Locke and Hobbes contemplated. What is the most basic force of man? What Truth compels us? The basis of monarchy endows power to make, not as it was created, Truth to be the essence of their invoking, though invoking the essence of Truth is the only force vested in us. The force of the agency of humans is the force of the agents around us that enable us to choose to which we will submit and in what we will prevail. However, “Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise,” as Thomas Paine elucidated. The ruins of the recesses of Truth necessitated an everlasting Covenant and conduit to redeem the soul and body from the fall of Adam. This is the force of mankind. Therefore, the more one understands the conduit of agency, the more one understands Truth, which knowledge increases in proportion as does experience of its opposite, the more one is truly free. The Truth is “wholly owing to the constitution of the people, and not the constitution of the government,” to manifest itself, Paine explained. “That [is why] the crown is not nearly as oppressive in England as in Turkey.” The conduits within us that empower us to not only be of it, but understand and know it, thus becoming it, appreciating and therefore to a Truth of themselves abiding more in it. If lies never knew one, they could never know to what source they may look for Truth (2 Nephi 25). The only power of government is this conduit, which is vested in the individual, and derived from opposition, a notion unequal and separate, the tyranny built on “bowers of paradise” is grounded on a supposition that no opposition exists. All governments are founded on this: they either invoke its pure essence, or twist it to be the essence of one’s invoking. Lehi expounded: Without “opposition,... righteousness could not be,... neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither Good nor bad.” He continued: “Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one;... if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility. Wherefore, it must… have been created for… naught; wherefore there would have been no purpose in the end of its creation. Wherefore, this thing must needs destroy the wisdom of God and his eternal purposes, and also the power, and the mercy, and the justice of God,” this rift supposedly compensated for by humans. By humans! Therefore, according to this logic, we are made equal, not created, atoning for His sins, The Pure Lamb of God without blemish, the only source of Sanctification, the darkest lie conceivable. This is the foundation of monarchy. “For [ ... this] we suffer, … [in this we] are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government,” Paine emphatically declared. “Our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government… is the badge of lost innocence…. Such a power could not… be from God; yet the provision, which the constitution makes, supposes such a power to exist.” The antidote for Truth, in such a world, severs the conduit from the source and the soul: it is a reconciliation of the True and Good to the deceitful and evil. Thomas Paine demonstrated this in Common Sense — reconciliation is death. “But Britain is the parent country, say some. Then the more shame upon her conduct. Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families; wherefore the assertion, if true, returns to her reproach; but it happens not to be true, or only partly so, and the phrase parent or mother country hath been jesuitically adopted by the king and his parasites, with a low papistical design to gain an unfair bias on the credulous weakness of our minds.” Adopted as a front of religious authority and charitable motherhood, with the devices of its true intent made to exploit this as evidence of the vitality of their motherly nurturement. To say that America “hath flourished under her connexion with Great-Britain, that [… it] is necessary to… future happiness, and will always have the same effect;” that its protection is a vitality, is utterly false. The conduit of evil never was the salvation of Truth. Commerce was the lifeblood of America’s tenacity, and to ruin it went when “the thickly planted… kingdoms” of Europe divulged their bloody interests with the insoluble wraith of war, overall destroying America: innumerable enemies and dead friends, a bankrupt nation, all on behalf of the mother striving to “accomplish by craft and subtilty, in the long run, what [they…] cannot do by force and violence in the short one.” Paine unveiled the monster for what it was: “America is only a secondary object in… British politics, England only consults the good of this country, no farther than it answers her own purpose. Wherefore, her own purpose leads her to suppress the growth of ours.” Our purpose, our Light, is Truth. “Men do not change from enemies to friends by the alteration of a name…. Reconciliation and ruin are nearly related…. Now is the seed time of Continental union, faith, and honour. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound will enlarge with the tree, and posterity read it in full grown characters.” An ancient American author delineated this concept: “We know that the things which we write upon [our hearts] must remain; But whatsoever things we write upon anything save it be [... our hearts] must perish and vanish away; but we can write a few words upon, [our souls] which will… sanctify. “Now in this thing we do rejoice; and we labor diligently to engraven these words [in us…], hoping that our beloved brethren and our children will receive them with thankful hearts, and look upon them that they may learn with joy and not with sorrow, neither with contempt, concerning their first parents.” That which is in our hearts, which is in the heart of America, will grow as this young sapling; the Declaration is therefore the most pure standard of Truth, the Light. “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” What is Life, what is its essence, that makes Life out of living? What is it? What is Liberty, what is its essence, that makes Liberty out of freedom? What binds these together as the standard? Well, their lifeblood is Truth. According to Khalil Gibran, “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” And I would add, Truth is knowledge within the soul, beyond the reach of mortality. It is a light no mortal eye can see. This is what makes Divine Liberty out of mortal freedom, what makes Life out of living. The Declaration of Independence is the essence of America. The Constitution is the perpetuity and protection of the Declaration. The Balance of power, to infuse Truth without assuming a power to administer it which destroys the balance, is its aim. The Truth is the heart, the Constitution is the body; the mind is the people. It is the standard that enforces True equality, not tangible equality (that is communism). United, they see with an eye of Light. “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light,” as Matthew of the New Testament witnessed. The Preamble of the Constitution states: “We, the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish, justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” This is the thesis of the Constitution, it is what is enforced to secure what cannot be. That which is enforced by mortals depends on a mortal force to sustain it, and is thus determined by humans, and is under mortal jurisdiction. The country cannot live in these, for it would die in them; rights ordained in the Constitution are our ties to Truth and conduits of Light. This unity is the balance and perpetuity of America. Some system therefore must strain the evils of man from the Truth. Government is that “necessary evil” that Hobbes, Locke, and Paine all reflected upon. Thus, for one person to govern another, they both must always be ruled by Truth — and Truth isn’t just the narrow frame of proof, Truth is the essence of being, that every philosopher has striven to penetrate. This is vested in the people. This power must be divided, but how so? The division must create genuine ambition, the one countering the other, without possibility of elimination: they must be separate and distinct, but corresponding. As a system designed to compensate for human nature, for one individual to govern another, they too must be governed. A group of people must, then, represent the powers of the people, but this embodiment must be distinctly divided, to also divide ambition, ambition countering ambition as James Madison perpended, to strain the tyranny of mortals from the welfare of the citizens, to secure a conduit of Truth. Government possesses no power, save it be by and for this notion. To allow this, powers vested will be separate and unequal, in that each body is subject to another, and has power over a different one. This creates ambition within the powers, propelling both the government’s efficiency, and the perpetuity of that power. Ambition is generated by pride. Every human act is motivated by it, but reason and Truth check it. This is what Locke ruminated on. Therefore, as humans with ambition will use the power given to them in every way to affect the others, to affect the country (which is checked by other powers), that power will not be dispensed. As two crabs in one box will in no way permit each other to ascend, such is government designed, that the body will never usurp the mind, the carnal will never blot out the pure, for darkness will never outshine or snuff out Light. This also protects against factions by the same design. The conduit is thus protected, and in this way, the government moves with the balance and surety only Truth and unity can adopt. These varying powers compose government, and through ambition, ambition is canceled out, so as to directly and without prejudice or pride, represent the people. Within this, for example, a bill, in order to become law, passes the House of Representatives by the sheer majority. However, pure “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch,” as Benjamin Franklin explained. “Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” Therefore, to balance this, power is given to the state, as representation of the smaller states is easily canceled out, so as to level the field. Every citizen is accounted for, every voice heard; the House and Senate, possessing different powers, through that variance, equality is achieved, and those powers will not be destroyed, for ambition is their perpetuity. After a bill passes Congress, it goes to the President. They are the head of America, but only have minimal power. Their powers basically only entitle them to veto or sign bills, grant pardons, receive ambassadors, and they are Commander-in-Chief. This was completely incompatible with the “Words and thoughts [everyone in the Old World…] has been taught to lisp in his… childhood,” W.E.B. Du Bois evoked (in his The Souls of Black Folk), with all the conceptions of leadership the Old World propagated. America, as one may guess, while it emerged wounded and victorious, it was at a loss for a precedent of leadership with everything now revolutionised. George Washington set the precedent in his genuine intent, motive, resolve, and purpose devoted in service to America, from thence founded on temperance and humility in liberality. He was completely genuine. He was transparent, and Light was his eye. This was a spark for the engine of America, a jumpstart and precedent. However, though Washington knew the evil of slavery, he could not end it. This weed was so tied to the roots of America, though its essence inevitably would intoxicate the plant, that to sever its roots, would be to cut that of the cause. It would destroy the Union. It would destroy America. Abraham Lincoln took a similar approach. He knew the absolute hypocritical evils of slavery: imagine Patrick Henry with The Declaration in one hand and a whip in the other — and “give me Liberty or give me death,” said he. This weed was leeching the plant’s life and corrupting its essence. That essence was not built divided. Lincoln recognized that, as the weed propagated and strengthened itself, and bled its essence into the lifeblood of the Tree of Light, it became the plant, all of its seeds, roots, and its life too corrupted. If Abraham Lincoln was to restore the plant with its essence, he needed first to become ‘compatible’ to it. As the executive of the corrupted plant, which he first had to become the president of, prevalent in and to it, if his inaugural address condemned the now essence of the Tree, with this fused into every citizen in some form, with few exceptions, freedom would be reviled by all but the overruled exceptions. Therefore, Lincoln, of necessity, began on the foundation of both: the Union. The one claimed that division, that choosing for oneself a path divided from others is the very prerogative of freedom, that unity was built divided; and the other that freedom’s foundation does not contradict itself, and Truth is defined by its tenacity. Thus, Lincoln called the two to become one, for if not, neither cause, the union, could prevail. This was Lincoln’s first concern; there is no True freedom without unity(anarchy): “if therefore thine eye be [not] single, thy… body shall be [neither…] of light,” or of darkness, “remain[ing] as dead, having no life neither death.” If Lincoln based himself on his own views, on the actual Truth, he would be seen as a tyrant and dictator, and all would vie against each other and him for power in what they thought was “their right, their duty, to throw off such Government, “Pursuing invariably the same object, [that] evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism,” the weed becoming preeminent. Abraham Lincoln walked the ridge between these ever-changing prevalent sand dunes, bombarded by both for his necessary and seemingly inexplicable inconsistencies. Due to these erratic movements in the Truth, abolitionists doubted if he ever walked in it at all, for Truth is defined by perpetuity: they viewed him as the downfall of all human freedom, of the conduit of Truth in the world. As a living paradox they knew him, that stripped away any notion of Truth and justice in perfect dehumanization, W.E.B Du Bois declared. They saw only his ‘compatibility’ warring with the True, a delusive and inconsistent being. Frederick Douglass, an African American whose birth was in slavery and who transcended it, a brilliant orator, understood the path Lincoln walked. He knew the motives of erraticism in an erratic union. He knew that unity was his first concern, bringing up the question: Is unity a status, equality an entitlement? — is life a husk? Is the essence of America, ordained to bring “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” empty? He knew as Lincoln did, that without the conduit of Truth, without a unity to found it on, without perpetuity, the ideals, though stagnant, would become hollow. He reprimanded the indifferent whites in his Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln: “You are the children of Abraham Lincoln. We are at best only his step-children; children by adoption, children by forces of circumstances and necessity. To you it especially belongs to sound his praises, to preserve and perpetuate his memory.” He was their father, and what was his memory to them? They savagely murdered him and despised his legacy. African-Americans were his adopted children, “children by forces of circumstance and necessity,” and thus were concerns as far as circumstance and necessity required. And they gave him life; they made him immortal. The white birthright now forfeit by the bearers, and honored by adopted children; “for while Abraham Lincoln saved for you a country, he delivered us from a bondage, according to Jefferson, one hour of which was worse than ages of the oppression your fathers rose in rebellion to oppose.” The Emancipation was their Declaration of Independence, their Fourth of July, a liberation from that of the whites, a complete hypocrisy. Lincoln saved the Truth. From its twisted face, and from its actual explosion, he saved it. He saved America. The scars in the tree were covered, bandaged, but the wound enlarged as did it. The tangible wholeness deceived so many; the Truth within it dying. The wound was outgrowing the essence, leeching its life, even after the advent of Lincoln “to the solemn shades, the silent continents of eternity.” George H. White explicated this. This ‘tangibility’ was the solution to the hundreds of years of degradation. “You may use our labor for two and a half centuries and then taunt us for our poverty, but let me remind you we will not always remain poor!” He proclaimed. “You may withhold even the knowledge of how to read God’s word and…then taunt us for our ignorance, but we would remind you that there is plenty of room at the top, and we are climbing…!” The illiteracy rate decreased by 45 percent, four million learned to read in only three decades, immediately after the end of slavery! Nearly four hundred million dollars’ worth of property accumulated — thousands of first-class educated doctors, lawyers, and entrepreneurs; and on, and on, and on. All of this in the face of “the most averse of circumstances…. In the face of lynching, burning at the stake, humiliation of ‘Jim Crow’ laws, the disfranchisement of our male citizens, slander and degradation of our women, with [even] the factories closed against us,” With the doors of enlightenment closed to them, White illustrates, the key of freedom hidden, they forged their own. Tangible equality is not and will not become True equality. Separation is the base of discrimination. Separation of schools, of transportation, of jobs, of existence, of Truth, justified by the assumption that after centuries of dehumanization, African Americans needed no elevation of status, if they were equal to whites. Dehumanization somehow vindicated by the notion that because they need an elevation to Truth, they were inferior. This is completely false. He “asks no special favors, but simply demands that he be given the same chance for existence, for earning a livelihood, for raising himself in the scales of manhood and womanhood, that are accorded to kindred nationalities. Help him to overcome his weaknesses, punish the crime-committing class by the courts of the land, measure the standard of the race by its best material, cease to mold prejudicial and unjust public sentiment against him, and… he will learn to support… and join in with that political party, that institution, whether secular or religious, in every community where he lives, which is destined to do the greatest good for the greatest number. Obliterate race hatred, party prejudice, and help us to achieve nobler ends, greater results and become satisfactory to our brother in white. This, Mr. Chairman, is perhaps the Negroes’ temporary farewell to the American Congress; but… phoenix-like he will rise up some day and come again.” He will return to the conduits. As a conduit, unity is freedom’s spring; freedom therefore is the body of equality, and, as the United States of America, the essence is void unless law bolsters it; and unless law is built by and for the people, all the former are void. If the universal and precedent law is constructed on prevalence, if a tower's frame is cloaked with the skin of a pyramid; any form subjected to this will soon become indistinct from its smoldering ruins. The people’s Constitution is therefore derived from a higher law, Truth binding every soul; therefore, unity and equality cannot be prerogatives, nor can freedom be bestowed: these vitalities are innate providence of God, a celestial flame of soul; with rights as lifeblood, the backbone of an equally free Union. The law cannot revolve around entitlements and promoted classes that arise from appearance, rather than accountability determining freedom. To give referral to freedom particular to gender, “is… a bill of attainder,” punishing half the Union, who “formed it, ” as Susan B. Anthony revealed. Only God endows life and conduits, and for anyone to claim this privilege translates pretense merit to their franchising accountability; without “consent of the governed” enforcing that “odious aristocracy,” with the externals of gender and race so pivotal as to destroy the Declaration, the essence, the former predicating the latter. To endorse, vindicate, and legitimize, the superiority of aloof classes, of gender or race is, to say the least, hypocritical. These predicate nothing, neither are they prerequisites to freedom, nor are they responsible for agency or Truth, which is “beyond… any state to deny,” or transfer. Freedom is the vestment of Truth its Conduit, not equality governed by superior equality. Security of freedom is enforced by action within it, rather than its stagnant state, a broken soul leased to ‘inferiors.’ Security is the engine and freedom the fuel of Truth. In a state void of this, a broken, “half slave and half free” nation, it is a nation no longer, divided against itself in the futile fuel of despotism. Susan B. Anthony, in using her “citizen’s rights,” as a person, to vote, to exercise the Truth within her, was convicted on a corrupted foundation. To exculpate this defiling of the Constitution, is to decide who are people, as if gender and race could ordain life and decide who could use it. Profoundly illustrating the Constitution, Anthony emphasized that our forefathers "ordain[ed] and establish[ed] this constitution for the United States of America. We the People." Ostensive, she concludes: "the only question left… is: are women persons? ... I hardly believe ... any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to... abridge their privileges or immunities.” America’s essence is pure as Light: equality, unity, and freedom, all founded on Truth, not their illicit pretense, distilling Truth as dispensable and condemnable, a tangible power. “No State shall enter... any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation;... pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law,… or grant any Title of Nobility,” the Constitution affirms. According to Anthony, “For any state to make sex a qualification…. is ...a bill of attainder, ... an ex post facto law…. By it the blessings of liberty are forever withheld from women and their female posterity.” The “‘sacred right of self government,’ which… phrase, though expressive of the only rightful basis of any government, was so perverted in ... attempted use,” as Lincoln illustrated, that, “if any ... man, choose to enslave another, no third ... shall ... object.” So who is free to build their own constitutions of another’s rights? In this realm, according to Susan B. Anthony, this “ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every home of the nation.” Thus the Constitution states: “Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and… th[ose...] convicted shall ... be liable and subject to… Judgment… according to Law.” Were, then, women impeached from freedom due to gender? criminalized and punished, severed from the office of freedom? No Truth is in this; we endorse freedom’s and the Constitution’s security, not the blessing, its nature unknown to any mortal jurisdiction. A union that professes to endow freedom is a selective unity; an equality where the people’s power is derived from tiers of Truth and statuses of prevalence; where freedom is disposable and expendable. Truth never was given. It is given. It is the perpetual blessing of Life, of Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” of which these are among. To deprive freedom is to claim proprietorship of life. Is, then, equality an entitlement? is unity a status? is life a husk? If one could claim this omnipotence, life only would be that hollow husk, for we are made of the Earth's. As Susan B. Anthony explains, “To them this government has no just powers derived from the consent of the governed. It is not a democracy. It is not a republic. It is an odious aristocracy; a hateful oligarchy of sex,… of learning,… of race,… which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissesion, discord, and rebellion into every home of the nation.” “Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up that state’s segregation laws was democratically elected,” when the very definition of an unjust law is a code which, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. explicated, “if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in acting or devising the law; “that a… majority compels a minority… to obey but does not make binding on itself?” How, then, are unjust laws abolished? All laws that have been, were through some form of tension. Peaceful and violent protests, civil conflict, and revolution are all examples that were designed to mandatorily open the door of negotiation. Dr. King, in a letter written from Birmingham jail, where he was confined for representing Truth and freedom in the nation of it, related that “In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.” Undoubtedly, “racial injustice engulfs this community.” As for negotiation, tension is the only key molded to open the door of it. “Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.” The only way to enlightenment is through tension, but the key always fits the door. Violent tension, or violent protesting, where one breaks an unjust law with vehemence, and physical violence, is not the key. Therefore, one must be completely free of all vice, pride, and enmity, to “accept blows,... endure the ordeal of jail;” even when “Uncle Sam’s hands are dripping with blood, dripping with the blood of the black man in this country,” dripping with your blood; even though “He’s the world’s number-one hypocrite;” Even as he deceives you day in and day out, even though “He has the audacity — yes, he has — imagine him posing as the leader of the free world. The free world! And you over here singing ‘We Shall Overcome,’” Malcolm X vehemently declared. When one can do all of this without retaliating, they are pure. Violence in breaking an unjust law only gives the oppressors ammunition: ‘See how they’re acting? They really are primal, they are a threat to our justice and peace,’thereby effectively forever locking the key in the hands of prejudice and its parasites by justifying an unjust penalty. “One who breaks an unjust law [therefore] must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty… in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice,” and not put it into a deeper slumber of “a negative peace which is the absence of tension,” instead enlightening to “a positive peace which is the presence of justice.” The community’s conscience will be pierced by nonviolent, direct action alone: “You assert that our actions, even though peaceful, must be condemned because they precipitate violence. But is this a logical assertion? Isn’t this like condemning a robbed man because his possession of money precipitated the evil act of robbery? Isn’t this like condemning Socrated because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical inquiries precipitated the act by the misguided populace in which they made him drink hemlock? Isn’t this like condemning Jesus because his unique God consciousness and never ceasing devotion to God’s will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion? We must come to see that, as the federal courts have consistently affirmed, it is wrong to urge an individual to cease his efforts to gain his basic constitutional rights because the quest may precipitate violence. Society must protect the robbed man and punish the robber.” The light will prevail, if itself is True; Truth will light, where it shines. The windows to heaven have ever fascinated mankind. They are everywhere; in the sky, in the earth, in each other — in our souls. This is the quest of humanity. This is what has guided every soul. This is the life. And in America, because we know this, Truth prevails.