ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies the considerations that ought to be taken into account in resolving the conflict of values presented by the campaigns of protest and resistance now disturbing the public tranquility. Awareness, recognition, and appreciation may be sharpened if the demonstration carries a stinger in inconvenience and irritation for many elements of the population. Demonstrations that are per se nonviolent can carry the sting that excites violent reactions. Exclusion of Negroes from the polls in the South invites the disfranchised Negroes to organize for protest and resistance. The increased incidence of rioting in which Negroes and whites are commonly identified as adversaries is a sufficient evidence of antagonisms brought to the surface of the social system. A democratic government is inextricably enmeshed in a democratic way of living. The state of political obligation in any society defies measurement at the stage of learning.
