Porschia Mitchell

“In short, the Negroes’ problem cannot be solved unless the whole of American society takes a new turn toward greater economic justice.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“This is why many liberals have fallen into the trap of seeing integration in merely aesthetic terms, where a token number of Negroes adds color to a white-dominated power structure. They say, “Our union is integrated from top to bottom, we even have one Negro on the executive board”; or “Our neighborhood is making great progress in integrated housing, we now have two Negro families”; or “Our university has no problem with integration, we have one Negro faculty member and even one Negro chairman of a department.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“Moreover, the white backlash had always existed underneath and sometimes on the surface of American life.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?