Still, King warned, we must be realistic in our movement. We must avoid extreme optimism - the notion that "we have come a long way" and have nothing to do but await the inevitable. We must also avoid extreme pessimism - the notion that "we have come nowhere" and can do nothing to alter our lives. We must say realistically that we have come a long way, but still have a long way to go. We must realize that change does not roll in "on the wheels of inevitability," but comes through continuous struggle.
-pg. 97 of Let the Trumpets Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B. Oates
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