07-14-2016, 06:37 AM
There is a paragraph that comes to mind from MLK's Dream speech.
The Civil Rights acts and other fallout from the awakening were no doubt major steps forward, and for a time folks were to some degree satisfied. Progress against prejudice seems to come in surges. We seem to be in a time when what has satisfied over the last several decades is no longer tolerable. Senator Scott's experience ought to strike home. It is no longer a time to tolerate such.
Quote:We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
The Civil Rights acts and other fallout from the awakening were no doubt major steps forward, and for a time folks were to some degree satisfied. Progress against prejudice seems to come in surges. We seem to be in a time when what has satisfied over the last several decades is no longer tolerable. Senator Scott's experience ought to strike home. It is no longer a time to tolerate such.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.