In the Movement, when they had all been at their best, the drive and the purpose had always been communal. But politics was a new and very different game, the members of the Movement who were entering it were beginning to learn, and in order to work for the same larger goals, you had to think only of what was good for you at the moment, and to be brutal, if need be, in your treatment of old colleagues. It was a lesson whites had learned long ago.
