Status Updates From Letter from Birmingham Jail

“…living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of ‘nobodiness’— then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.

there comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.”