Orwell would argue that the first step, collecting the facts, is the most revolutionary of acts, as it was for Winston in 1984. King was arguing that in a world based on facts, in which the individual has the right to perceive and decide those facts on his or her own, the state must earn the allegiance of its citizens. When it fails to live up to its rhetoric, it begins to forfeit that loyalty. This is a thought at once profoundly revolutionary and very American.
