"Although we are separated by many miles we are closer together in a mutual struggle for freedom and human brotherhood," he wrote dissenters in Souther Rhodesia. "We realize that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Therefore, we are as concerned about the problems of Africa as we are about the problems of the United States." He understood what they were going through and how difficult it was to challenge the racial status quo. "But in the final analysis it is such a creative minority that save history."But concerned though he was about Africa, he emphatically opposed any modern back-to-Africa movement in the United States. When a Negro begged him to lead their people to Liberia or Ghana, King firmly replied: "To have a mass return to Africa would merely be running from the problem and not facing it courageously....We are American citizens, and we deserve our rights in this nation. I feel that God has marvelous plans for this world and this nation and we must have the faith to believe that one day these plans will materialize."
-pg. 114-5 of Let the Trumpets Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B. Oates
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