It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fe

It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries. – Martin Luther King,Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968

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