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