A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #51

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday earlier in the month:

“Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial ‘outside agitator’ idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.”

– from “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr., written April 16, 1963

 

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