I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice."

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Quotations

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Absence	Almost	Block	Citizens
Conclusion	Councilor	Devoted	Freedom
Great	Justice	Klanner	Klux
Moderate	Negative	Negros	Order
Peace	Positive	Prefers	Presence
Reached	Regrettable	Stride	Stumbling
Tension	Toward	White

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