Segregation is not only inconvenient—that isn’t what makes it wrong. Segregation is not only sociologically untenable—that isn’t what makes it wrong. Segregation is not only politically and economically unsound—that is not what makes it wrong. Ultimately, segregation is morally wrong and sinful.
— <p>Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, <em>The American Dream</em>, quoted in <a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Q9IN68?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=213733&amp;creative=393177&amp;creativeASIN=B000Q9IN68&amp;linkCode=shr&amp;tag=cat0be5-20&amp;linkId=Y2ZQUK4MRALBWER2">A Knock at Midnight</a>.</p>
<p>While reading a story on the flare-up of sectarian violence in the Levant, and <a href=“http://inthesetimes.com/article/16907/refusing_vience_in_palestine">one group’s use of nonviolent protest</a>, I was reminded of this passage from one of Dr King’s later sermons.</p>