I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens 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 can’t 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.
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Martin Luther King, Jr (Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963)
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I will never stop saying this: it is you “neutral” whites who make the continuation of racism possible every single day.
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This is my biggest problem in combating racism. The white people who want to be “neutral” and act like nothing is wrong and if we ignore it it’ll go away eventually.
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This is why White liberals have been utterly ineffective in bringing about racial change in society.
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