Monday, January 15, 2024

MLK Day: More Devoted to Order Than Justice

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 Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice...

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.


Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.


Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.