tion and to deny citizens the First Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest."
             Dr. King provides the definition of unfairness in the application of laws,
             differentiating it from the concept of prima facie unfairness in design. Specifically, Dr.
             King acknowledges that the very laws for which he was jailed for violating are just laws,
             in principle, because the requirement of an ordinance for public demonstration is a
             perfectly valid governmental mechanism for ensuring public order. However, Dr. King
             explains that even laws that are just on their face are capable of being applied unjustly to
             thwart justice rather than to promote it.
             "Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."
             In this excerpt, Dr. King rejects the notion that those who participate in civil
             disobedience are responsible for creating tensions in otherwise peaceful societies.
             According to Dr. King, those who demonstrate their peaceful opposition to unjust laws
             and to morally unacceptable conditions in society merely raise awareness of tensions that
             already exist in society that are simply not widely acknowledged.
             "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the !absence of tension to a ...