Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Maladjusted

"There are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize -- I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to -- segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence. But in a day when sputniks and explorers are dashing through outer space and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can win a war. It is no longer the choice between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence...
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Social Justice and the Emerging New Age" address at the Herman W. Read Fieldhouse, Western Michigan University, December 18, 1963

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