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Taking Martin Luther King Jr’s Call For Creative Maladjustment Seriously

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Martin Luther King, Jr. once said "There are some things in our nation and in our world to which I'm proud to be maladjustedā€¦ I never intend to adjust myself to segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few, and leave millions of people perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of prosperity. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, and to the self-defeating effects of physical violence... And I call upon you to be maladjusted to these things until the good society is realizedā€¦