Martin Luther King, Jr. (via anotherwellkeptsecret)

This is a very important quote from MLK’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham.”

Here’s the quote in its original language: “We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was ‘legal’ and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was ‘illegal.’ It was ‘illegal’ to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country’s antireligious laws.”

Read more here: http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

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