Martin Luther King Jr.:

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.

— Martin Luther King Jr. Modern

Civil rights leader

Context

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Date / Period

1963

Source

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

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