The collective power of the people is not only a material, emotional, and economic resource, but it is a spiritual force as well. As we look back on our national story we can see many accounts of “man’s unending search for freedom,” as President Lyndon Johnson once put it. It is a struggle not only against the oppression imposed by human beings on one another, but it is an inner struggle of the American soul to free itself from the contradictions of its own fallacies about the nature of true democracy, freedom, and equality.
