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White Gandalf · @whytgndlf
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"One day the will its ."

Jr., Letter from , April 16, 1963. Image from .

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White Gandalf · @whytgndlf
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"Now is the time to make real the of and our pending into a of . Now is the time to lift our national from the quicksand of to the solid of ." Jr., Letter from , April 16, 1963. Image from interior of the Cannon Congressional Office Building, Washington, DC.

#promise #democracy #transform #national #elegy #creative #psalm #brotherhood #policy #racial #injustice #rock #human #dignity #martinlutherking #birminghamjail #mlkday

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White Gandalf · @whytgndlf
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"We will have to in this not merely for the hateful words and of the bad people but for the of the ." Jr., Letter from , April 16, 1963. Image from interior of the Cannon Congressional Office Building, Washington, DC.

#repent #generation #actions #appalling #silence #good #people #martinlutherking #birminghamjail #mlkday

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White Gandalf · @whytgndlf
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"[Y]ou assert that our , even though , must be condemned because they precipitate . ... We must come to see that, as the have consistently affirmed, it is to urge an to cease his efforts to gain his basic because the quest may precipitate violence. must the robbed and punish the robber." Jr., Letter from
, April 16, 1963.

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White Gandalf · @whytgndlf
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"[W]e ... are not the creators of . We merely bring to the the tension that is already alive. ... Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the medicines of and , must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of and the air of before it can be cured." Jr., L.fr

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White Gandalf · @whytgndlf
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"An is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is made . By the same token, a is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is made legal." Jr., Letter from , April 16, 1963. Image from interior of the Cannon Congressional Office Building, Washington, DC.

#unjustlaw #minority #difference #legal #justlaw #sameness #martinlutherking #birminghamjail #mlkday

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White Gandalf · @whytgndlf
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"One may well ask: 'How can you advocate breaking some and obeying others?' The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: and . I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a but a to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with that 'an unjust law is no law at all.'" Jr., Letter from

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White Gandalf · @whytgndlf
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"We know through painful experience that is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. . . . I have yet to engage in a campaign that was 'well timed' in the view of those who have not suffered . . . segregation. For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!' ... This 'Wait' has almost always meant 'Never.' We must come to see . . . that ' too long delayed is justice denied.'" Letter from

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White Gandalf · @whytgndlf
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"My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in without determined and . Lamentably, it is an that groups seldom give up their voluntarily. Individuals may see the light and voluntarily give up their posture; but, as has reminded us, groups tend to be more than individuals." Jr., Letter from , April 16, 1963.

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White Gandalf · @whytgndlf
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"You may well ask: 'Why ? Why , and so forth? Isn't a better path?' . . . direct action seeks to create such a and foster such a that a which has constantly refused to is forced to confront the issue. . . . The of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation." Jr., Letter from .

#directaction #sitins #marches #negotiation #nonviolent #crisis #tension #community #negotiate #purpose #martinlutherking #birminghamjail #mlkday

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White Gandalf · @whytgndlf
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" anywhere is a threat to everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of , tied in a single garment of . Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial 'outside ' idea. Anyone who lives inside the can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds." Jr., Letter from , April 16, 1963.

#injustice #justice #mutuality #destiny #agitator #UnitedStates #martinlutherking #birminghamjail #mlkday

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