Aaron Swartz quotes Martin Luther King:
…there are some things in our social system to which I am proud to be maladjusted and to which I suggest that you too ought to be maladjusted.
I never intend to adjust myself to the viciousness of mob-rule. I never intend to adjust myself to the evils of segregation and the crippling effects of discrimination. I never intend to adjust myself to the tragic inequalities of an economic system which take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to become adjusted to the madness of militarism and the self-defeating method of physical violence.
That speech was made in 1957, almost forty-eight years ago. Martin Luther King was murdered in 1968, almost thirty-seven years ago. Yet you’d almost think he’d seen the current Administration in action. Some things never change.
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