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.”
I tend to distrust anyone quoting this, mostly because they’re often the exact same kind of all talk no action white politics preacher, just from a self proclaimed leftist position of feeling morally righteous about both sides being the same instead of a self proclaimed centrist position of feeling apathetic about both sides being the same.
Fundamentally the same kind of take that can only possibly come from a place of privilege, just in a different coat of paint.
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.”
-MLK
I tend to distrust anyone quoting this, mostly because they’re often the exact same kind of all talk no action white politics preacher, just from a self proclaimed leftist position of feeling morally righteous about both sides being the same instead of a self proclaimed centrist position of feeling apathetic about both sides being the same.
Fundamentally the same kind of take that can only possibly come from a place of privilege, just in a different coat of paint.
Ah yes, MLK Junior, the famed preacher from privilege.
Not him the people quoting it, literally said it in the comment.
What have you done with your life?
About as much as anyone else my age?