I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. 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. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
In response to the encroaching oligarchy, it is simply not enough to be that "white moderate" again. As prices of goods and
essential medicines continue to go up, we have a segment of this country willing to go down into whatever abyss is being created for the lower classes to "own the libs" or because they are told any reform at all is "socialism", I'm not going down with them, I'm not going to wait for them to be comfortable, I am not going to care about their feelings. None of us should be catering to the whims of that segment of the population.
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