Monday, January 16, 2012

Martin Luther

An excerpt from Letter from Birmingham Jail:




    "I had also hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth of time. I received a letter this morning form a white brother in Texas which said: "All Christians now that the colored people will receive equal right eventually, but is it possible that you are in too great of a religious hurry? It has taken Christianity almost 2000 years to accomplish what it has. The teachings of Christ take time to come to earth." All that is said here grows out of the tragic misconception of time. It is the strangely irrational notice that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of good people. We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitably. Its comes through tireless efforts and persistent work of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation."


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