A man said to me, I believe in integration, but I know it will not come until God wants it to come. You Negroes should stop protesting and start praying. I am certain we need to pray for Gods help and guidance in this integration struggle, but we are gravely misled if we think the struggle will be won only by prayer. God, who gave us minds for thinking and bodies for working, would defeat his own purpose if he permitted us to obtain through prayer what may come through work and intelligence. Prayer is a marvelous and necessary supplement of our feeble efforts, but its a dangerous substitute. When Moses strove to lead the Israelites to the promised land, God made it clear that he would not do for them what they could for themselves. And The Lord said to Moses, wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. We must pray earnestly for peace, but we must also work vigorously for disarmament and the suspension of weapon testing. We must use our minds as rigorously to plan for peace as we have used them to plan for war. We must pray with unceasing passion for racial justice, but we must also use our minds to develop a programme, organize ourselves into mass nonviolent action, and employ every resource of our bodies and souls to bring an end to injustice. We must pray unrelentingly for economic justice, but we must also work diligently to bring into being those social changes that make for a better distribution of wealth within our nation and in the undeveloped countries of the world. - Extract from Strength to love by Martin Luther King
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:14:20 +0000
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