Lawson, he decided, was not a fearful phony after all; rather, he was a great teacher, a man who took you beyond the easy emotional response to oppression and pushed you to find your true, better self. Yes, if you had enemies, it was easy to hate them, but what good did hating do? Who was the beneficiary of hate? And didn’t you in the end become as much a prisoner of the hatred as the man who hated you? That was what Jim Lawson was teaching them.
