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That he failed to fully achieve his goal should not diminish his heroism any more than the failure of the original founding fathers diminishes theirs.
“for as a Christian I believe that there is a creative personal power in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality—a power that can not be explained in materialistic terms.”
“I knew that there is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.”
“I can see no conflict between our devotion to Jesus Christ and our present action,” he responded. “In fact I see a necessary relationship. If one is truly
devoted to the religion of Jesus he will seek to rid the Earth of social evils. The Gospel is social as well as personal.”
Candidates for local office proclaimed their dedication to segregation as if it were the only issue that mattered.
“During the bus boycott I was tested by fire,” Coretta would recall years later, “and I came to understand that I was not a breakable figurine.”
and complaining that they were “so bent on seeing all sides” that they often took no side at all.
This is no day to pay mere lip service to integration, we must pay life service to it.
“We the Negro people are now not afraid,” said Carrie Allen, a grocery store worker in Union Springs, Alabama. “We have woke up.”
fact, three years later, President Richard Nixon would come close to enacting a plan to give every family of four a guaranteed annual income of $1,600, a move that had the support of more than a thousand American economists. Why hadn’t it yet been done? King faulted racism. Most of white society cared more for tranquility than for justice.
