Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.
Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.