"So,
I conclude by saying again today that we have a task and let us go out
with a "divine dissatisfaction." Let us be dissatisfied until America
will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of
deeds.
Let
us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city
of wealth and comfort and the inner city of poverty and despair shall be
crushed by the battering rams of the forces of justice. [,et us be
dissatisfied until those that live on the outskirts of hope are brought
into the metropolis of daily security.
Let
us be dissatisfied until slums are cast into the junk heaps of history,
and every family is living in a decent sanitary home. Let us be
dissatisfied until the dark yesterdays of segregated schools will be
transformed into bright tomorrows of quality, integrated education.
Let
us be dissatisfied until integration is not seen as a problem but as an
opportunity to participate in the beauty of diversity.
Let
us be dissatisfied until men and women, however black they may be, will
be judged on the basis of the content of their character and not on the
basis of the color of their skin. Let us be dissatisfied.
Let
us be dissatisfied until every state capitol houses a governor who will
do justly, who will love mercy and who will walk humbly with his God.
Let us be dissatisfied until from every city hall, justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Let us be dissatisfied until that day
when the lion and the lamb shall lie down together and every man will
sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid. Let us be
dissatisfied. And men will recognize that out of one blood God made all
men to dwell upon the face of the earth."
-- Martin Luther King Jr., Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Georgia 1967.