I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice… who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait.
Martin Luther King.
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Ah yes, the well-minded-kind-hearted-people-with-the-power-and-the-money still say the same thing nowadays about self determination for all the indigenous peoples of the world and all the independence movements. So true.