Political Quotes

“I am going to close with something a bit more general because I have been wrestling with this for the better part of the last 4 or 5 years. It is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s letter from the Birmingham City Jail. King, when he wrote that letter, said something that I will leave us with tonight. King was told that the officials in Birmingham wanted him to leave Birmingham because they said that he was a disruptive force and that they thought that his cause was right, but his timing was wrong. King wrote this to those people who wrote him the letter. He said: "Time is never right. Time is never wrong. Time is always what we make it." Then he concluded that he was coming to the belief that the people of ill will in our society were making a much better use of time than the people of good will. Then he closed saying that we are going to be made to repent not just for the vitriolic words and actions of bad people but for the appalling silence of good people. There is a lot going on in our country today for which we need to speak up about. If we remain silent, we are going to be made to repent, and we may see that democracy is no longer with us.”