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Why We Can't Wait
Why We Can't Wait | Martin Luther Jr King
Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, Wait. But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim when you see the vast majority of twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you when your wife and mother are never given the respected title Mrs. when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of nobodiness then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. "Why We Can t Wait " Martin Luther King s Classic Exploration of the events and forces behind the Civil Rights Movement"
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Staci
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I'm a non violent person so this book spoke to me. I loved his perspective on freedom!

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Morr_Books
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During Day 3 of the #FabulousFebruary readathon, I finished the tagged book as part of Black History Month. MLK was so inspiring. I really appreciated the section when he discussed that desegregation means nothing without solving the issue of economic disparity. An issue I believe to be still quite prevalent in our society today. Great read!

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⌛️ Last year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day someone said that instead of reading his quotes we should be reading his words. I took up her challenge with this. So many page flags. So much sadly still relevant almost 60 years later. I was going to pick out a cool quote to share, but I challenge you to do the same. Read his words around the quotes if you haven‘t already.
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It‘s #JoyousJanuary #Readathon update time! Finished 1/3 books

Andrew65 Great choice 👏👏👏 3y
PaperbackPirate Thank you for the recommendation @catiewithac ! 💙 3y
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PaperbackPirate Thank you @Andrew65 ! 🙌 3y
PaperbackPirate Finished 2/5 books for #JumpStart2022 3y
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Oh joy! It‘s almost time for the #JoyousJanuary #Readathon with @Andrew65 !

I have 3 books started so my goal is to finish them!
🎨 Sisters in Art by Wendy Van Wyck Good
✊🏾 Why We Can‘t Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr.
🫀 Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown
~ 500 pages to go total

Who else is playing and what are your goals?

Andrew65 Good luck 😊👍 3y
PaperbackPirate Thank you @Andrew65 ! 📚 3y
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PaperbackPirate
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This month I hope to read:
✊🏾 Why We Can‘t Wait (been reading this a bit at a time since last year, time to finish!)
👬 The Outsider (readalong on IG)
💙 Wild Women and the Blues (currently reading for book club-loving so far)
🗣 The Last Thing He Told Me (#MonthlyKeyWordgxo challenge)
❤️ Atlas of the Heart (readalong with a friend)
🎨 Sisters in Art (Early Reviewer)

🍀Wish me a good #JumpStart2022 !

#StayHomeAndRead #tbr

Clwojick I‘m hoping to get my hands on a copy of The Last Thing He Told me soon too! Hope you enjoy it. ☺️ 3y
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“When, for decades, you have been able to make a man compromise his manhood by threatening him with cruel and unjust punishment, and when suddenly he turns upon you and says: ‘Punish me. I do not deserve it. But because I do not deserve it, I will accept it so that the world will know that I am right and you are wrong,‘ you hardly know what to do. You feel defeated and secretly ashamed. You know that this man is as good a man as you are.”

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“Nonviolent direct action did not originate in America, but it found its natural home in this land, where refusal to cooperate with injustice was an ancient and honorable tradition and where Christian forgiveness was written into the minds and hearts of good men.” #Juneteenth

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Starting this for my #Juneteenth read, along with continuing Ted Gioia‘s magisterial history of the Delta Blues.

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My latest #bookhaul, after a rare trip to Barnes & Noble.

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Not sure why it took me so long to get to this but as with his other work, it was phenomenal, a must read.

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I spent the week in DC for work. I am so happy to be home and in my own bed.

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I ordered this book intending to create a carving and ended up reading its entirety. I wish every American would read this; at the very least his 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail." My heart and soul needed this so much that I found myself moved to tears. Our society needs more "extremists for love."

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BookishFeminist
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For #Recommendsday, I'm recommending this classic collection of essays by Martin Luther King, Jr. So many of us are familiar with his "I Have a Dream" speech, but his philosophy goes deeper than his nonviolent tactics & optimism. This collection contains his famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," in which he confronts sympathizers who tell him "not now" & dives into a deep discussion of systemic racism that formulates a lot of racial theory. ✊?

AnIndianReader And yes I can't wait to read it. I WILL after Perks of being.... :) 8y
BookishFeminist @Shashank I loved Perks of Being a Wallflower! Are you enjoying it so far? 8y
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EnidBiteEm Supposedly another INFJ ... an idealist who acts on it ... it makes sense why 'not now' was NEVER going to be a good enough reason 😀 8y
BookishFeminist @EnidBiteEm Yep I've heard he's an INFJ, too. We're on the list with a lot of really awesome introverted leaders, and also some very shifty ones. ? His letter is so good in explaining why "not now" just won't work- he takes these guys to task for even suggesting it (as he should). 8y
EnidBiteEm It's an interesting issue to fight against - not now - I have heard a lot of rubbish from so-called leaders in Australia, but not many try the 'not now' tactic - although they might think it. 8y
EnidBiteEm And yes, INFJs have some woeful and amazing company 😢😍 8y
BookishFeminist @EnidBiteEm It's a really tiresome tactic. A lot of our leaders & others in the US try it, especially when it comes to the #BlackLivesMatter movement. It's just deflecting. 🙄 If not now, then when? So many people say it when they purport to be allies to a movement and want to seem less extreme or don't want to condone certain parts of a movement. In my opinion, it's complete rubbish like you said. 8y
EnidBiteEm 😢In Australia we have so many politicians at the moment who don't even pretend to be allies, which may seem like a good start, but the ignorance and myths they base their reasoning on (and that people vote them in for is appalling). A newly elected Senate member gave their speech to parliament this week - it was very Islamophobic - and when fact-checked? SEVEN LIES. 8y
BookishFeminist @EnidBiteEm My #recommendsday post was inspired by an amazing essay in a book I'm reading right now that parsed the reasons why liberal Americans distanced themselves from the civil rights movement after obtaining legal equality. They switched to more general policies that supported everyone including black communities, but ultimately victimized black people by claiming it was them holding themselves back from equal results. It was fascinating. 8y
BookishFeminist @EnidBiteEm Ughhhh. Yea that's sadly happening everywhere right now! 😓 It's heartbreaking. So many of our leaders here are openly Islamophobic, xenophobic, and racist and have no shame about it. (Ahem Tr*mp) He's far from the only one though. They never pass fact check muster. The worst part is that it goads everyday people into normalizing that behavior & finding it acceptable, which means there's more hate crime. Sad and infuriating. 😔😠 8y
EnidBiteEm Yet another one to check out 😀 I know 😔We seem to see more of him (often in tones that mock) than Hilary, in social media, but the apathy that then grows from hearing such hate speech everyday, and the impetus to turn off rather than act, is alarming (and allows the normalising of discrimination to grow). Also, this politician was voted in once before, in the 90s, after saying Aust was in danger of being 'swamped by Asians.' Twenty years later . 8y
EnidBiteEm it's the same speech, just a different group on which she's pinning blame 😔Twenty years ago, her ignorance was called out for what it was on mainstream television and radio, 20 years later and with social media she is gaining greater acceptance or at least greater airtime 😔 8y
AnIndianReader @BookishFeminist totally !!! Loved Charlie and his letters :) I think 'the movie effect' is still on me, imagining things and all. But trying to forget it. 8y
ReadingEnvy I once read a book of his sermons, very powerful. 8y
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