I refuse to give up. I refuse to despair in this moment. I refuse to allow myself to fall into the dark chambers of pessimism because I think in any social revolution, the one thing that keeps it going is hope. And when hope dies somehow the revolution degenerates into a kind of nihilistic philosophy which says that you must engage in disruption for disruption’s sake. I refuse to believe that.
Martin Luther King on Meet the Press, August 13, 1967
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