Alicia's Favorite MLK quote.

[mazzie]

"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

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[starcat_jewel]

To those who say, "Now is not the time," I say, "If not now, when? And if not me, who?"

[fabunobo]

I am guilty of the sentiments you cite above. Thank you for posting.

[turbogrrl]

The Principle of Unripe Time is that people should not do at the present moment what they think right at that moment, because the moment at which they think it right has not yet arrived. ... Time, by the way, is like the medlar; it has a trick of going rotten before it is ripe.

- Francis MacDonald Cornford in Microcosmographia Academica