백인 우월주의보다 백인 온건주의가 흑인에게 더 나쁘다 – 마틴 루떠 킹 주니어

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time; and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.”
letter from birmingham jail, martin luther king, jr.

우리의 삶이 쉽게 좋아지지 않는 건 우리의 반대 편에 있는 사람들 때문이라기보다는 우리 편에서 바람을 빼는 사람들 때문이다.