No time to “wait”
<p>In 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote the famous words: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” He also wrote, from a cell in Birmingham Jail, “There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over and men [and women] are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the bleakness of corroding despair.”</p>
<p>He wrote these words after being criticized by white clergymen who published a letter in the Birmingham News following his arrest, entitled, <a href="https://bplonline.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4017coll2/id/746/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>White clergymen urge local negroes to withdraw from protests</em></a>. The clergymen instead proposed the work of racial equality be done quietly, appealing to legal systems, and that the afflicted not disrupt the peace of the city with public demonstrations.</p>
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