2. Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be
exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and
the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
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