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Why We Can't Wait
Martin Luther King
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1964
- Pages
- Pages 180
A jailed man writes in the margins of a newspaper, then on scraps a trusty smuggles to his cell, then on a legal pad his lawyers are finally allowed to leave behind. The letter assembled that way answers eight white clergymen who had called his demonstrations unwise and untimely, and its sharpest turn is the one they never saw coming: the great obstacle to freedom, King tells them, is not the Klansman but the moderate who loves order more than justice.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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