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the United States has by far the highest rates of incarceration in the Western world; it witnesses more gun violence than any other so-called civilized country; its entertainment industry glorifies violence, misogyny, sexual promiscuity,
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“Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.”
― Letters to a Birmingham Jail: A Response to the Words and Dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
― Letters to a Birmingham Jail: A Response to the Words and Dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The purpose of our direct-action program is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.”
― Letters to a Birmingham Jail: A Response to the Words and Dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
― Letters to a Birmingham Jail: A Response to the Words and Dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.”
― Letters to a Birmingham Jail: A Response to the Words and Dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
― Letters to a Birmingham Jail: A Response to the Words and Dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
― Letters to a Birmingham Jail: A Response to the Words and Dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
― Letters to a Birmingham Jail: A Response to the Words and Dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.”
― Letters to a Birmingham Jail: A Response to the Words and Dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
― Letters to a Birmingham Jail: A Response to the Words and Dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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