We Are Now Faced With The Fact

The Words 'bad Timing' Came To Be Ghosts Haunting Our Every Move In Birmingham. Yet People Who Used This Argument Were Ignorant Of The Background Of Our Planning...they Did Not Realize That It Was Ridiculous To Speak Of Timing When The Clock Of History Showed That The Negro Had Already Suffered One Hundred Years Of Delay.

We Have Waited For More Than Three Hundred And Forty Years For Our Constitutional And God-given Rights.

Many White Americans Of Good Will Have Never Connected Bigotry With Economic Exploitation. They Have Deplored Prejudice But Tolerated Or Ignored Economic Injustice.

One Has A Moral Responsibility To Disobey Unjust Laws.

Human Progress Is Neither Automatic Nor Inevitable . . .