イアン・サマーホルダーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (イアン・サマーホルダーInstagram)「A#Repost @historycoolkids Mugshot of Martin Luther King Jr. after being arrested for organizing a city-wide boycott of segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama 1956. If you have the chance today, take some time to read MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." I've read it several times before, but this time I read it aloud, and it was so much more emotional and powerful. I remember reading the letter for the first time in 8th grade and not being able to understand everything. My teacher at the time also failed to mention that this letter was a response to concerns raised by 8 white Alabama clergymen who were quick to criticize MLK for his demonstrations and urged him to negotiate. Knowing that information would have helped a lot with the context of the letter. However, I was still able to take away with me the following quotes: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." "Justice too long delayed is justice denied." Now that I'm older, I'm more drawn to the other parts of the letter, which is still remarkably relevant even after all these years: "I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. 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 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 cannot agree with your methods of direct action' 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 for a 'more convenient season.' Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection." Source: https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/」1月19日 14時35分