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It's been 62 years since "Letter from Birmingham Jail" was written and MLK's words about the white moderate are still completely on point. (See pic)

My fave MLK quote is "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

The little stuff matters. Do not tolerate BS or you will receive BS.
First, I must confess that over the last 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 the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er 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 can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
September 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Strength in solidarity.
A picture spray painted on a brick wall with two panels that reads - First panel: Shows a bigger fish going after smaller fish. At the bottom it says, "Do not panic." Second panel: The smaller fish have formed a giant fish that is now going after the big fish. The bottom reads, "Organize." "Do not panic. Organize."
March 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
feministesquire.bsky.social
Reminds me of these statements:
Tweet by littlemammith that says, "So much of the "male loneliness epidemic" boils down to the fact that a lot of men just... don't like women. They don't find them interesting. They don't enjoy being around them. They want to "have a girlfriend" in the abstract but their lives are otherwise entirely homosocial." Quote by Marilyn Frye that says, "To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire... those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex. Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic. It is man-loving."
January 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
feministesquire.bsky.social
"Evil prospers when good people remain silent."

The Paradox of Tolerance
Infographic explaining that to remain a civil, tolerant society, you cannot tolerate the intolerable. The Paradox of Tolerance by philosopher Karl Popper.
November 29, 2024 at 12:10 AM