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This exploitation is possible because so many of the residents of the ghetto have no personal means of transportation.
hem a people up in the prison walls of overcrowded ghettos and to confine them in rat-infested slums is to breed crime, whatever the racial group may be.
unborn have died. After 348 years racial injustice is still the Negro’s burden and America’s shame.
This sense of somebodyness means the refusal to be ashamed of being black.
one day cause white America to see that integration is not an obstacle, but an opportunity to participate in the beauty of diversity.
The great challenge is to prepare ourselves to enter these doors as they open.
Structures of evil do not crumble by passive waiting.
house in order? All these questions remind us that there is a need for a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.
For its very survival’s sake, America must reexamine old presuppositions and release itself from many things that for centuries have been held sacred. For
If we are seeking a home, there is not much value in discussing blueprints if we have no money and are barred from acquiring the land. We
It is not well known that the Teamsters have well over a quarter of a million Negroes in their ranks,
with some of the highest rates of pay enjoyed by Negro workers anywhere in industry.
Clergy-led teams dramatize the dispute to the ghetto inhabitants by picketing the stores where the products in question are sold.
The Negro vote presently is only a partially realized strength.
Negroes should be natural allies of many white reform and independent political groups, yet they are more commonly organized by old-line machine politicians.
Racism is a tenacious evil, but it is not immutable.
They sense that they are manipulated, and their defense is a cynical disinterest.
they shut the door to political activity and retreat into the dark shadows of passivity.
Uniting social action with educational competence, Jews became enormously effective in political life.
When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they.
technique. It must become a crusade so vital that civil rights organizers do not repeatedly have to make personal calls to summon support.
they attracted massive sympathy and support; but they did not assemble and unify the support for new stages of struggle. The
The tragedy is that too often he does not recognize what has happened to him.
told something I should never forget. We need organizations that are permeated with mutual trust, incorruptibility and militancy.
The most striking thing about this story is not that Rip slept twenty years, but that he slept through a revolution that would alter the course of human history.
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.
to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.
But our moral and spiritual “lag” must be redeemed.
is the first law of life precisely because we cannot preserve self without being concerned about preserving other selves.
we cannot be content to see men hungry, to see men victimized with ill-health, when we have the means to help them.
One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
President John F. Kennedy said on one occasion, “Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.”
So we must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody that is far superior to the discords of war.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
We are aready there.
These are days which demand wise restraint and calm reasonableness.
These are revolutionary times.
