Porschia Mitchell

“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?

“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?

“The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro. What greater heresy has religion known? Ethical Christianity vanished and the moral nerve of religion was atrophied. This terrible distortion sullied the essential nature of Christianity.”
― 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?