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Martin Luther King Jr.

“Yet the average white person also has a responsibility. He has to resist the impulse to seize upon the rioter as the exclusive villain. He has to rise up with indignation against his own municipal, state and national governments to demand that the necessary reforms be instituted which alone will protect him. If he reserves his resentment only for the Negro, he will be the victim by allowing those who have the greatest culpability to evade responsibility. Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention. There is no other answer. Constructive social change will bring certain tranquillity; evasions will merely encourage turmoil. Negroes hold only one key to the double lock of peaceful change. The other is in the hands of the white community.”

Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy Book 2) Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.
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