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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
by sonotathrowaway 7y ago
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
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]
- luckydata 7y agoOne thing I learned: if you can hope for something in life that never disappoints, then you can count on the white moderate to disappoint you every time.
- war1025 7y agoCare to elaborate?
- rolltiide 7y agohad me in the first half
- dang 7y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21078125 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21078125 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20722525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20722525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20599451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20599451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20140962 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20140962
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