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“When the injunction was issued in Birmingham, our failure to obey it bewildered our opponents. They did not know what to do. We did not hide our intentions. In fact, I announced our plan to the press, pointing out that we were not anarchists advocating lawlessness, but that it was obvious to us that the courts of Alabama had misused the judicial process in order to perpetuate injustice and segregation. Consequently, we could not, in good conscience, obey their findings. I intended to be one of the first to set”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“The Negro’s economic problem was compounded by the emergence and growth of automation. Since discrimination and lack of education confined him to unskilled and semi-skilled labor, the Negro was and remains the first to suffer in these days of great technological development.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest