In his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" Reverend Martin Luther King,
Jr. penned a scalding critique of American Christianity addressed to his
"Dear Fellow Clergymen"
Too long has The Peace Process been bogged down in a tragic effort to
live in monologue rather than dialogue.
Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up
their privileges voluntarily. We know through painful experience that freedom
is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the
oppressed. We must come to see that justice too long delayed is justice denied.
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever and if repressed emotions are
not released in nonviolent ways, they will seek expression through violence;
this is not a threat but a fact of history.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an
inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever
affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside
agitator" idea. Anyone who lives in the world can never be considered an
outsider anywhere within its bounds.
The world is pulled to change by extremism and our only dilemma is what will we be extremists for? Hate or love? God or State?
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