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Why We Can't Wait
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bookshelves: socially-inequality-socially-woke, academic-required-reading, kindle-prime-electronic, favorite-books
Oct 23, 2018
bookshelves: socially-inequality-socially-woke, academic-required-reading, kindle-prime-electronic, favorite-books
"If he is still saying, “Not enough,” it is because he does not feel that he should be expected to be grateful for the halting and inadequate attempts of his society to catch up with the basic rights he ought to have inherited automatically, centuries ago, by virtue of his membership in the human family and his American birthright.”
If I summarized the entire book then I have every chapter highlighted. This is easily the best book I ever read and so engrossing that it makes you want to re-read lines to get a grasp of what the author is talking about. I really love how this book was so relevant in society, has America ever made progress? How far are we away from slavery? Even today, racism still exists, Blacks are still accomplished Black, not accomplished people.This book angered but also inspired me to keep marching on toward Freedom. It should be required reading for not only those enrolled in school but for every person living on this earth.
Truly this is America, Black Lives Matter is the same as the nonviolent movement that MLK started. Injustice still goes on, Statistics STILL show that the chances of the Black person getting the job is slim in contrast to the White person with the same damn qualifications! Sorry this is really hard to summarize without getting emotionally attached.
Is there any progress at all? We will not wait.. We are tired of waiting. "When you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park.."
Pivotal, remarkable, unparalleled, touching, not enough words in the dictionary to describe this book.
Martin Luther King, you will forever be remembered and not only for Black history month but for eternity!
If I summarized the entire book then I have every chapter highlighted. This is easily the best book I ever read and so engrossing that it makes you want to re-read lines to get a grasp of what the author is talking about. I really love how this book was so relevant in society, has America ever made progress? How far are we away from slavery? Even today, racism still exists, Blacks are still accomplished Black, not accomplished people.This book angered but also inspired me to keep marching on toward Freedom. It should be required reading for not only those enrolled in school but for every person living on this earth.
Truly this is America, Black Lives Matter is the same as the nonviolent movement that MLK started. Injustice still goes on, Statistics STILL show that the chances of the Black person getting the job is slim in contrast to the White person with the same damn qualifications! Sorry this is really hard to summarize without getting emotionally attached.
Is there any progress at all? We will not wait.. We are tired of waiting. "When you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park.."
Pivotal, remarkable, unparalleled, touching, not enough words in the dictionary to describe this book.
Martin Luther King, you will forever be remembered and not only for Black history month but for eternity!
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“Their objectives included the elimination of Birmingham’s rigid segregation. They wanted the right to vote. They wanted jobs and the ability to try on clothes in all the places where they shopped. They wanted public schools opened to all children without regard to the color of their skin.”
― Why We Can't Wait
― Why We Can't Wait
“He explains how all African Americans involved in our own liberation struggle came to embody the dignity of moral conviction and self-sacrifice. Importantly, he explains here how the way of nonviolence heals the oppressed as well as the oppressor.”
― Why We Can't Wait
― Why We Can't Wait
“But the climate, the social climate of American life, erupted into lightning flashes, trembled with thunder and vibrated to the relentless, growing rain of protest come to life through the land. Explosively, America’s third revolution—the Negro Revolution—had begun.”
― Why We Can't Wait
― Why We Can't Wait
“This was not true for the Negro. There were two and one-half times as many jobless Negroes as whites in 1963, and their median income was half that of the white man. Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice, but tolerated or ignored economic injustice. But the Negro knows that these two evils have a malignant kinship.”
― Why We Can't Wait
― Why We Can't Wait
“If he is still saying, “Not enough,” it is because he does not feel that he should be expected to be grateful for the halting and inadequate attempts of his society to catch up with the basic rights he ought to have inherited automatically, centuries ago, by virtue of his membership in the human family and his American birthright.”
― Why We Can't Wait
― Why We Can't Wait
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October 9, 2018
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October 9, 2018
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October 9, 2018
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academic-required-reading
October 11, 2018
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13.07%
"Since this is Academic reading..It will probably take me awhile to finish it,but I plan on giving a review!"
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Jan 20, 2023 12:22PM
Great review! Yes, angered and inspired says it well. 2020 protests and what’s going on in Florida right now, just two examples, have certainly shown how far we have not come, how far we still need to go.
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