Watching Bevel that morning, Lafayette had a sudden insight: In all racial and social situations Bevel instinctively probed for resistance, and the more resistance he found, the more confident he was that he was on the right track, and the more he pushed ahead. It was as if the resistance of the white people around him proved to him the truth of what he was trying to do. Therefore, the deeper they went into the heart of the segregationist South, the harder Bevel pushed and probed.
