This entry was posted on 5/10/2006 2:27 PM and is filed under Philosophical Stuff.
I remember this MLK quote from the first time I read it in school and I
finally sat down and found the complete quote. You know
when you're having a political debate with someone and you have the
perfect fact or quote in your mind but you just can't recall it in the moment?
Similar to situations where you don't think of a great comeback or
witty remark until after the conversation is over. Well,
I've wanted to use this quote in various political debates over the
years, most recently about immigration.
Whenever I debate people who are anti-immigration, they seem to always use the results of immigration being illegal as an argument for its continuation. So here is the quote and link the complete source.
"Economic deprivation, social isolation, ignorance, poverty breed crime,
whatever the racial group may be, and it is a tortuous logic to use the
tragic results of segregation as an argument for the continuation of
it. There is a need to go for the causal root, to grapple with the
problem at that point and to get rid of the notion once and for all
that there are superior and inferior races."
