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I entirely understand what you are saying butthe situation had become of such a nature that it was no longerpossible to act in this way with regard to these people.   Butthis is not in the case of every person, every second or thirdperson in the black community was an activist or a comrade andif we look in terms of percentages how many people were treatedin a rough manner these would be the extreme cases on their side.  Only those persons who went entirely beyond all control, personswho committed arson and true acts of violence, as far as we coulddetermine, these persons who were the real fermenters(?) of violenceand then the only possibility remaining for us was to counter
1. violence /...
MR CURRIN 653 J HECHTER
violence with violence, with the purpose at that time to keepour leaders in power.