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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Also see: MLK's speech about how the largest threat to black people's rights is the white liberal.

[–] BlitzoTheOisSilent 58 points 3 weeks ago

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.”

MLK Jr "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The quote that someone else posted below doesn't exactly say what you wrote. Are you referring to something else? Well, the below quote was from a letter, not from a speech, so perhaps you have something else in mind.

[–] MajinBlayze 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's probably what they're talking about, just misremembered the specifics