राजेन्द्रजी,
आपका अपील पढा। काफी खुशी हुई। लगा चलो कोइ तो काम कर रहा है मधेशी हक िहतके िलए। १९९४-९६ में आपके साथ िकए कामोंकी याद आई। राजाके कुके बाद जब आप िदल्लीमें थे तब जो हम फोन पर बितयाते थे, उसकी याद आइ। आपके माध्यमसे ही उस वक्त कृष्ण िसटौलासे गप्प हुइ। आज वो गृह मन्त्री हैं।
अभी मधेशीयोको कुछ िमला नहीं है। पृथ्वीनारायणने जो उपिनवेशवाद लादा मधेश पर वो अभी भी कायम है। महेन्द्रका पञ्चायत तो फेंक िदया गया लेिकन एक भाषा, एक भेष वाला महेन्द्र पथ कायम है। नही तो वीपी कोइरालाके संसदमें िहन्दीको मान्यता प्राप्त थी।
गोइत जो आज कह रहा है वो बात पहाडी लोग दशकोंसे कहते आए हैं। ६० लाख मधेशीयोको नागिरकता पत्र न देनेका मतलब है आप कह रहे हैं वो नेपाली नही हैं। िजसको आप नेपाली मानते ही नही हैं वो लोग अपना िमट्टी अपने साथ ले जाएँ अौर अलग देश बना ले तो क्या हर्ज है?
लेिकन हमें अलग देश नहीं चािहए। मैं तो दिक्षण एिसयाका आर्िथक एकीकरणका सपना देख्नेवाला व्यक्ित हुँ। मैं एिसयन शताब्दीका सपना देख्नेवाला व्यक्ित हुँ। मुझे व्यक्ितगत तो मधेश नामका अलग राज्य तक नहीं चािहए।
"हामी नेपाली" का भावना िजन्दगीमें कभी हमें महसुस ही नहीं हुआ। चाहे वो बुढानीलकण्ठ स्कुलके बाहुनोका गन्दा राजनीित हो या काठमान्डुके सडको पर मधेशीयोका दुर्दशा, नेल्सन मण्डेला उसको "a thousand little indignities" कहते हैं। यहाँ तककी अमेरीकाके िमनी नेपालमें भी वही हाल है। मधेशीयोका मानिसक दासता यहाँ भी बरकरार है। राजेन्द्रजी, आप जैसे लोगोंकी जरूरत अमेरीकाके मधेशीयोको भी है। पैसा कमा लेता है, िडग्री प्राप्त कर लेता है, लेिकन मधेशीया मानिसक दासता नहीं छोडता है।
मुझे नेपालका संिवधान कैसा चािहए, वो तो मैं िलख चुका हुँ। मेरे प्रस्तािवत संिवधान पर कुछ बहस हो। सम्पर्कमें तो रहना ही है।
Proposed Constitution
Google Video: Madhesi
Bindeshwar Shah On Madhesi Rights
Madhesi Gathering In Prospect Park 1
Madhesi Gathering In Prospect Park 2
Nepal Democracy 6
Seven Party Delegation At Yak
Aftab Alam, Nepali Congress 1
Aftab Alam, Nepali Congress 2
Ratneshwar Goit, CPN (UML)
Anil Jha, Nepal Sadbhavana Party 1
Anil Jha, Nepal Sadbhavana Party 2
Anil Jha, Nepal Sadbhavana Party 3
From the Archives
Loktantrik Madhesi Samaj: Corrections To Interim Constitution
Pramukh Dar
Bye Bye Biplav
Nepal: Maps
DaMaJaMa Coalition: The Morcha Concept
Biplav's Satya Narayan Pooja
Nepali Convention Leadership Weekly Meeting
Madhesi Rights
Three Emerging Poles
Janajati, Madhesi: Too Vague, Dalit: Not Assertive Enough
Rajendra Mahto: नागरिकता विधेयक खोतल्दा
Hands Off The Madhesi Activists
ANTA NYC Gathering In Prospect Park
Bindeshwar Yadav: Restructuring Of The State
Citizenship Acquiring Process Eased
Bindeshwar Prasad Yadav: Prachanda On Madhesi
All Members To The Constituent Assembly Must Be Directly Elected
50-30-10-10: Four Layers Of Government
Dalit Diaspora Calls For 20 Percent Reservation
Madhesi Self Hate
Hari Bansh Jha: Inclusion Of The Excluded Madhesis
Madhesi Mahila (MaMa) Gathering In Ridgewood, NY
Critiquing The Interim Constitution
Hridayesh Tripathy's August Revolution
Interim Parliament: 101 Members Total
Bindeshwar Prasad Yadav: Human Rights For Half Of Nepal
My Work In The Ideas Department Is Complete
Bindeshwar Prasad Yadav: Is Madhes A Colony?
Language Policy
Alliance, GFIPN: Audio, Video
Global Federation Of Indigenous People Of Nepal
The Next Revolution Will Be At The Ballot Box
Janakpur Gherao
Indigenous People Kathmandu Declaration
Federal Republic Guaranteed
Mainstream Jay Krishna Goit Also
Dr. Ram Prakash Yadav: Facts And Figures On Madhesi Marginalization
Mahendra Lawoti: Constituent Assembly
NIPF: Talk Program In Boston
Brikhesh Chandra Lal: Inclusive Democracy
Madhesi Caucus In Interim Parliament Needed
Hindi Is At The Core Of The Madhesi Identity
Girija, Resign
Hridayesh
Chicago Convention September 2-4
Congress Unification: Not Possible, Unnecessary
Indigenous Nationalities Peace Commission Nepal: Interim Constitution
In Solidarity With The Kamaiya Movement
Direct Elections, One Seat For Every 100,000 People, Reservations, Primaries
Federalism: Competing Maps
SAJA Convention 2
Brikhesh Chandra Lal: Representation In Constituent Assembly
FDI, NRN, Upendra Mahato, $100 Million Fund, Dual Citizenship
RPP For Federalism Ahead of UML, NC And NC(D)
C.K. Lal: NRIs In Nepal
ANA Convention: My Hamro Nepal Speech
My Federalism Is Economic, Scientific, Not Ethnic
Interim Constitution Draft
Reform The Nepali Organizations In America
Not So Fast, Indian Communists
Janajati Angst
Why It Is Important To Me The Congress Takes Up A Federal Republic
Madhesis, Social Justice, And The DaMaJaMa Equation In Nepal
Why Were The Women Beat Up?
Rameshwor Shah: Inclusive Constituent Assembly
June 17 Madhesi Gathering In New York City
Girija Koirala: Not In Tune With The April Revolution
MaMaMaMa
Frustration, Chemical Imbalance, Mental Imbalance
Dr. Hari Bansh Jha: Bonds Beyond Borders
Exporting Revolution
UML Inching Towards Federalism
Bahun, Chhetri, Sunni
Abolish The Monarchy, Abolish The Army
Jay Prakash Gupta
June 7 Madhesi Rally In Janakpur
Monarchy, Army, Federalism
MaDaMaJa
Dr. Binay Shah
Nepal Janajati Statement From NYC
Bidya Bhandari: Power Woman
Adivasi Janajati Talk At Harvard: Photos
Dinesh Tripathi Appearance in Baltimore
What's Wrong With The ANA Convention
Democracy Diwali At The Nepali Mandir
Janajati Sammelan At The New School
Dr. Ram Krishna Shah
One Central Committee Member For Every Million Nepali
मधेशीसँग संख्या छ, शिक्त छैन
Prakash Bom For Strong Districts
Internalized Racism Among Nepalis In NYC
The April Revolution Asks For A New Political Party
No Short Cuts: Madhesis Will Have To March
Dismantle The Two Armies
To: The Kathmandu Media
Chitralekha Yadav: Speaker
Madhesi Rights: Total Equality
ितमीले देखाइ िदयौ
18 Days Of April Revolution: Victory
My Most Controversial Blog Post To Date: On Madhesi Issue
कर्फ्यु तोड्न आह्वान गर्नेले
Sanjaya Parajuli In Brooklyn
April 20: March Onto The Palace, End The Monarchy
जाउलो खाएर क्रान्ित गर
The Art Of War, Bruce Lee
30 Minutes With Amrit Bohra
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Irrelevant
Aire Gaire Natthu Khaire Pahadis
क्रान्ितलाई नबुझ्नु, बुझ पचाउनु
First ANTA NYC Event, Times Square Marriott
Malaria, Polio, Monarchy
ये तो क्रान्ित है
Interim Constitution, Revolutionary Parliament
Shoot At Sight Order: Dead End For The King
Constituent Assembly: 300 Seats Of Roughly Equal Population
Crime, Organized Crime, Terrorism, State Terrorism
BBC Calls
The Fascists In Kathmandu
Final Act: Disobey The Curfew
Leahy Amendment Says No Arms To Nepal
यो सडक ितम्र्ो हो
Loktantra, Issue 5
Deuba Off To DC
Hridayesh Tripathy Released
Dinesh Tripathi, Your Worst Nightmare
Democracy Spreading Mechanism
Needed: Dynamic Agreement, Concrete Eight Party Alliance
Undeclared Ceasefire, Decisive Movement
Dinesh Tripathi Raising Dust
हृदयेश त्रिपाठी: मधेसी समस्या र राज्यको पुनर्संरचना
Govind Shah: Social Inclusion Of Madheshi Community In Nation Building
संघीय गणतन्त्र
Money, Message, Organization
"Robin Hood Im Internet"
Khim Lal Bhattarai Arrested
Not Journalism But Politics At The Speed Of Thought
Blogger Receives Death Threat, Bloggers Form Union
मधेशी अधिकारको कुरामा पहाडीहरुको सहभागीता
Hridayesh Tripathi Arrested
प्रवासी नेपाली: "नैतिक समर्थन कायम राख्दै भौतिक समर्थन थप्ने।"
मधेशी पहचान
देशव्यापी पम्फलेटिङ
Bamdev Gautam: January 20 On Schedule
प्रहार गरिहालौं
Tea, Coffee Or Soda?
अइ आन्दोलनमें मधेशी अधिकारके बात
लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नै किन?
Dinesh Tripathi, "Arthur Kinoy Of Nepal"
RPP Split Shows Monarchy Will End
Janakpur Rally, Biggest In Nepal Since 1990
Nepal Needs To Be Hitting The World Headlines: Write To The Media
PCP: Pahadi Chauvinist Pig
Phone Talk With Girija Koirala: Meeting History Itself
January 12 Janakpur, January 20 Kathmandu
Time For Madhesi Militancy Is Now
In The Quest For Social Justice Feelings Are Going To Get Hurt
Madhesi
Nepal Democracy Google Group Does Not Believe In Free Speech
40 Reasons Why The Three Forces Should Come Ar0und To My Proposed Constitution
Rajeev Goyal Talks Up Caste
Seven Party Forum In Jackson Heights
Sage Radachowsky Interviews Anil Jha
Badri Mandal: Winner
Anil Jha, Bimal Nidhi, Jimmy Carter
Anil Jha, Bimal Nidhi US Tour Logistics
Sadbhavana Meets In Janakpur
Bimalendra Nidhi US Tour
September 16 Protest Rally
The King In Janakpur
Nepal's Terai People In Deplorable Conditions: Mahto
Power Woman Protest
Words Matter
Madhesi Hum Lenge Sau Mein Pachas
Hridayesh Tripathy
The Kathmandu Media Ignores The Sadbhavana
Caste Discrimination Leads To War
To: Koirala, Nepal, KC, Pokharel, Tripathy, Mahto And The Rest
Sangram Morcha: A New Political Party (1993)
Badri Mandal: Sadbhavana's RPP Face
Peace First, Then Democracy, Democracy First, Then Social Justice
Common Minimum Program: Constituent Assembly
The Emotional Structure Of The Conflict
Phone Talk With Hridayesh Tripathy
Madhesi Rights: Abhi Nahin To Kabhi Nahin
Pradip Giri: DaMaJaMa
Tibetans And Madhesis
This Inadequate, Improper, Insufficient 1990 Constitution
Time For The Nepali Congress To Take A Stand On The Constituent Assembly Question
Phone Interview With Rajendra Mahato
Hridayesh Tripathy In Delhi: Good News
In The News
Nepal: Precarious Premise Of Peacemaking NepalNews the Maoists describe Nepal as a dynamite between two boulders ..... When the rebels continue to ascribe to the palace the ability to torpedo the peace process, they are virtually negating the finality of the “historic” proclamation the House of Representatives adopted in May. ...... the Maoists’ bafflement over the government’s refusal to “suspend” the monarchy, when, for all practical purposes, the House proclamation has already done that. ....... Such fiery rhetoric cannot obscure the flexibility behind the Maoists’ growth. An organization that took up arms against both the monarchy and parliamentary democracy – more vigorously against the latter until the June 1, 2001 royal palace massacre – has now allied with one. ...... A 40-point list of grievances heavily targeted against India has now been distilled into diatribe against the 238-year-old monarchy. .... No wonder U.N. General Assembly members on Monday refused to be taken in by the peace-and-democracy platform in Nepal campaign for a two-year seat on the Security Council.
FNCCI to go ahead with strike plan despite court order
NC for nationalizing traditional properties of the King The meeting of Central Working Committee (CWC) of Nepali Congress has decided to nationalize "all traditional properties except personal assets" of the King. ..... The meeting concluded that during the interim period, the King should be made not only "powerless" but also "property-less." Briefing the meeting about the ongoing peace talks, Prime Minister and president of NC Girija Prasad Koirala reiterated that his party favored letting the ceremonial monarchy continue until the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly (CA) decides its fate after CA elections. He further added that without managing the arms of the Maoists, free and fair elections of CA cannot be ensured.
Another round of peace talks soon: SPA leaders 
Email From Anil Jha
Parmendra ji It' my handfold request to u to send this argument to all madheshi who want to be far from us, aur unke liye ek sayari bhi pesh hai " BHAGAT SINGH JAROOR JANME, LEKIN PADOSHI KE GHAR" ki tarah nahi chalega.
Email From Anil Jha
Parmendra ji It' my handfold request to u to send this argument to all madheshi who want to be far from us, aur unke liye ek sayari bhi pesh hai " BHAGAT SINGH JAROOR JANME, LEKIN PADOSHI KE GHAR" ki tarah nahi chalega.
If a very few madheshi (specially from Sadbhawana) is raised genune issues from very begning then what is the duty of Prabashi Madheshi ? If others made money in past and till now making but just cashing the issue. Prabashi Madheshi should ask questions to them and support us, if Prabashi Madheshi are wants to be impartial.
In my personl Openion that In Nepal, Pahadiyas are no harder as like as South Africa or Palistine rulars, they are very very soft and injecting sweet poison to madheshi and slowly capturing madhesh. Chitawan, Jhapa, Morang, sunsari, Bardiya, Kailali, Kanchanpur, dang and Udaypur are the major examples of just last 45 years. In each and every Party there are alot of madheshi back benchars ( Like Sikandar Bakt's in BJP-India, Mir Zafar and Jai Chand's of Indian Freedom and Muslim fights espectively), even now I have alot of examples about so called dabang madheshi leaders of INCLUSIVE and DEMOCRATIC NEPAL. They are getting chance to be Minister, 90% (+) madheshi voting for other party than sadbhawana and same 90% are very very -ve about their own community Madheshi and +ve on Pahadiyas, as aftab Alam of NC talking to Parmendra and Binay.
If welknown Madheshiyas (who are residing abroad and knows the dynamics of power, weak community and ) specially nobody among u are born in abroad, all are madhesh born, So aren't u know the mindset? Is it posible to say a pro-madheshi activist that u r doing wrong because 90% madheshi through ballate denied regularly in last 15 years of Democracy the issues of sadbhawana which is fact but hard reality, Now all party are saying that is true in some issues. Is it true or not when there was Rithik Roshan Kand in Kathmandu one madheshi wasInformation Minister and that minister in hardcore pahadi wearings and argued that " Yo aandolan rastrawadi bhawana le swasphurta roople bhayeko chha"
If we are wrong pls say u r wrong and if we are right why u r not supporting us directly ? What is hagitation to u ? Do u need something from Nepali state or political party? I think no.
If 90% madheshi can live in same circumstances what we all are facing then why not 10% including NSP(Both) workers/ voters/ supporters ? Is it only their duty? Only Sadbhawana's are xtorted, exployted, discriminated, marginalized? No, we all madheshi.
I want to request to say "Pls remember initially the xtortion, exploytation, discrimination, marginalizing done by pahadiyas/ rulersnot to Sadbhawana but to all madheshi, then only sadbhawana tekan place after 220 years of Nepal's unification i.e. madheshi's exploitation. If we are right, our questions and reservations on Nepalese state and rulers are right then it is the duty of all madheshi to support us, It's our Haque not Bhiksha from u madheshi's.
If we advocted right and other's misguided u all in past then they should do Praschitya. Because Wee log jo sadbhawana ke aalawe ke party me hai unhone madheshiyon ko chit kiya, bargalaya, galat rasta dikhaya. Aap ko unhe dandit karna chahiye. Sadbhawana ko aur sirf sadbhawana ke ladaku dasta ko hi Prabashi Madheshiyo ka support hona chahiye, yah genuene baat hai. Waise Loktantar aur liberty sabhi ko hai, par sadbhawana ne yaa ushkae koi bhi karyakarta ne aaisi galati ya kukarma nahi kiya hai ki aap ko ushe support karne me sarmingadi mahashush ho, Yadi kiya hai to KHULLAM KHULLA MADHESH KO BINA KHANA BINA PAANI BINA HAWA BINA SWARTH bluntly madheshiyo ke dhaal ka hi kaam kiya hai. Shahab, sarm aur laaj to unhe hona chahiye jo kisi ne kisi ko aab bhi canfuse kiya hai ya karne ki prayash kisi ke or se ho raha hai to unhe honi chahiye aur aant me " BHIKH BHI MNGI HUM NE TO SAAN-E- KHUDDARI KE SAATH, KI DENEWALA BHI HUM SE SARMINDA RAHE"
That's why It is necessary to think very very positive on Sadbhawana and only those Madheshi who struggeled from very bigining for Madheshi " Aabhi roop ka ek sagar ho toom bahoot chahane wale mil jayenge". aabhi inclusion ka mudda pur desh me utha hai to bolne wale bahoot mil jayenge, to unka kya hoga jo bahoot pahle se ish deepak ko jalaye rakkha sirf Gaali????
Anil Jha
Write to Anil Jha at anilkjha@gmail.com
Martin Luther King - Letter from Birmingham Jail Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. ........ you have been influenced by the view which argues against "outsiders coming in." I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. We have some eighty-five affiliated organizations across the South, and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. ....... am here because I was invited here I am here because I have organizational ties here. ...... I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. ..... Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. ...... Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds. ........ You deplore the demonstrations taking place In Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. ........ the city's white power structure ...... In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action. ........ Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. ...... Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation. ....... Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the latter consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation. ........ As the weeks and months went by, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise. ..... We had no alternative except to prepare for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and the national community. Mindful of the difficulties involved, we decided to undertake a process of self-purification. We began a series of workshops on nonviolence, and we repeatedly asked ourselves : "Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" "Are you able to endure the ordeal of jail?" ........ You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling, for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. ........ I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, we must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. ....... The purpose of our direct-action program is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. ...... Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather than dialogue. ........ Some have asked: "Why didn't you give the new city administration time to act?" ........ While Mr. Boutwell is a much more gentle person than Mr. Connor, they are both segregationists, dedicated to maintenance of the status quo. ........ we have not made a single gain civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure. ...... privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily ...... groups tend to be more immoral than individuals. ........ freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ....... I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. ....... The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we stiff creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. ....... when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son who is asking: "Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?"; when you take a cross-county drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading "white" and "colored"; when your first name becomes "nigger," your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are) and your last name becomes "John," and your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you no forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness" then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. ................ two types of laws: just and unjust. ...... one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. ........ An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. ..... Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distort the soul and damages the personality. ...... segregation is not only politically, economically and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and awful. ......... Throughout Alabama all sorts of devious methods are used to prevent Negroes from becoming registered voters, and there are some counties in which, even though Negroes constitute a majority of the population, not a single Negro is registered. ......... Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. ......... One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. ....... the early Christians, who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks rather than submit to certain unjust laws of the Roman Empire. ...... academic freedom is a reality today because Socrates practiced civil disobedience. ...... the Boston Tea Party represented a massive act of civil disobedience........ It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. ........ over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. ...... the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." ........ Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. ........ they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. ....... we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured........... a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely rational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. ....... the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. ...... We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. ........ time is always ripe to do right. ....... two opposing forces in the Negro community. One is a force of complacency, made up in part of Negroes who, as a result of long years of oppression, are so drained of self-respect and a sense of "somebodiness" that they have adjusted to segregation; and in part of a few middle class Negroes who, because of a degree of academic and economic security and because in some ways they profit by segregation, have become insensitive to the problems of the masses. The other force is one of bitterness and hatred, and it comes perilously close to advocating violence. ........ we need emulate neither the "do-nothingism" of the complacent nor the hatred and despair of the black nationalist. ...... his black brothers of Africa and his brown and yellow brothers of Asia, South America and the Caribbean ...... The Negro has many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations, and he must release them. ......... I have not said to my people: "Get rid of your discontent." Rather, I have tried to say that this normal and healthy discontent can be channeled into the creative outlet of nonviolent direct action. .......... Jeans Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. ......... I should have realized that few members of the oppressor race can understand the deep groans and passionate yearnings of the oppressed race, and still fewer have the vision to see that injustice must be rooted out by strong, persistent and determined action. ......... I have been so greatly disappointed with the white church and its leadership......... In the midst of blatant injustices inflicted upon the Negro, I have watched white churchmen stand on the sideline and mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities. In the midst of a mighty struggle to rid our nation of racial and economic injustice, I have heard many ministers say: "Those are social issues, with which the gospel has no real concern." .......... rise from the dark dungeons of complacency to the bright hills of creative protest ....... There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. ....... being the son, the grandson and the great-grandson of preachers. ....... fear of being nonconformists. ....... There was a time when the church was very powerful in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Whenever the early Christians entered a town, the people in power became disturbed and immediately sought to convict the Christians for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators"' ......... and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. ........ I have no fear about the outcome of our struggle in Birmingham, even if our motives are at present misunderstood. ....... Before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. ......... You warmly commended the Birmingham police force for keeping "order" and "preventing violence." I doubt that you would have so warmly commended the police force if you had seen its dogs sinking their teeth into unarmed, nonviolent Negroes. I doubt that you would so quickly commend the policemen if .you were to observe their ugly and inhumane treatment of Negroes here in the city jail; if you were to watch them push and curse old Negro women and young Negro girls; if you were to see them slap and kick old Negro men and young boys; if you were to observe them, as they did on two occasions, refuse to give us food because we wanted to sing our grace together. I cannot join you in your praise of the Birmingham police department. ......... they have used the moral means of nonviolence to maintain the immoral end of racial injustice. As T. S. Eliot has said: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason." .......... their sublime courage, their willingness to suffer and their amazing discipline in the midst of great provocation. One day the South will recognize its real heroes. ........ who responded with ungrammatical profundity to one who inquired about her weariness: "My feets is tired, but my soul is at rest." ..... Never before have I written so long a letter. ..... what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts and pray long prayers? ......
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