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Letter from Birmingham Jail

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker condemns both hateful acts and the silence of people who consider themselves good. Staying quiet is treated as a serious failure too. The call to repent places responsibility on this generation, including those who did nothing to oppose harm.

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