I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate

ale@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

Your title is very silly. Do you think the situation would be better or worse with a fascist, white supremacy in charge?

Patapon Enjoyer@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

Well if it isn’t the person Dr King was talking about

be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social · 11 months ago

Here’s the full letter from a Birmingham jail.

ale@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

Thanks. I hadn’t read it before.

Hyperreality@kbin.social · 11 months ago

It’s a quote by Martin Luther King.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.