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Negroes have proceeded from a premise that equality means what it says, and they have taken white Americans at their word when they talked about it as an objective. But most whites in America in 1967, including many persons of good-will, proceed from a premise that equality is a loose expression of improvement. White America is not even psychologically organized to close the gap--essentially it seeks only to make it less painful and less obvious but in most respects to retain it. Most of the abrasions between Negroes and white liberals arise from this fact. - Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (1967) Happy birthday, MLK. #BlackLivesMatter
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:24:48 +0000

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