“No matter what we suffer. I know it’s really hard when we think of the tragic midnight of injustice and oppression that we’ve had to live under so many years, but let us not become bitter.”
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Source: A Realistic Look at the Question of Progress in the Area of Race Relations (1957)
About this quote
In A Realistic Look at the Question of Progress in the Area of Race Relations (1957), King uses a direct appeal to responsibility to examine justice, with attention to matter, suffer, really. The practical center is the relationship between compassion and become and bitter, giving readers a specific lens for judgment and action.
When to use it
- A community organizer builds a meeting around matter before participants choose one measurable action related to justice.
- A teacher pairs the passage from A Realistic Look at the Question of Progress in the Area of Race Relations (1957) with a primary-source exercise about compassion and public responsibility.
- A team leader uses the tension between suffer and bitter to discuss conduct under pressure.