“We
are not interested in being integrated into this value structure. Power must be
relocated, a radical redistribution
of power must take place ...This means a revolution of values ...We must see
that now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all
tied together, and you really can't get rid of one without getting rid of the
others ....The whole structure of American life must be changed ...We must formulate
a program, and we must fashion the new tactics which do not count on government
good will, but instead serve to compel unwilling authorities to yield to the
mandates of justice ...Nonviolent protest must now be adapted to urban
conditions and urban moods. Nonviolent protest must now mature to a new level ...mass civil disobedience
...There must be more than a statement to the larger society, there must be a
force that interrupts its functioning at some key point ....Let us therefore
not think of our movement as one that seeks to integrate the Negro into all of the
existing values of American society, but as one that would alter those basic
values.”
[Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]
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