Read the excerpt from "Make Gentle the Life of This World." What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be Black.
The excerpt contrasts what the United States does not need—division, hatred, violence, and lawlessness—with what it does need: love, wisdom, compassion, and justice. This sharp contrast between opposing ideas is antithesis, so the correct choice is “antithesis.”
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