Status Updates From Letter from Birmingham Jail

“…living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of ‘nobodiness’— then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.

there comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.”

Il était tellement passionné par le christianisme… Ça fait une éternité qu’il parle de Dieu et de ce qu’il a apporté sur terre… Not complaining, just saying.
Toutefois, quand il a dit qu’un bon croyant ne peut pas participer à étaler la misère (en étant raciste, en excluant d’autres croyants parce que noirs,…) sur terre, I am with him on that

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