We did want social change and we wanted it now, but our urgency wasn’t born of indulgence and immediate gratification. Just the opposite. It sprang from a lifetime of watching injustice and immorality go unchecked and unchallenged. My father was not a college-educated man, but one of the sayings he was fond of was Burke’s “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” That was my father’s justification for going to war, and it was mine for trying to stop a war. Yes, we did want to change the world. It was a world that needed changing. * * * Tucker’s expression stayed with Elliot all morning. Offense. Hurt. Bewilderment. Resolve. Welcome to the club. It was maddening that, despite Elliot’s real and considerable anger, he couldn’t help feeling a flicker of sympathy for Tucker. It was obvious that Tucker was so sure he was in the right, it genuinely baffled him that Elliot couldn’t see it too. He handed out and collected the last of his final exams.
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