Here, Martin Luther King implies that the "white moderate" is the one who prefers “order” over justice for the oppressed. Furthermore, Kings says that the “white moderate” promotes patience over action because they believe that changes will occur gradually and that should be patient and wait for the day it will happen. Moderation means not “getting work up” by a certain issue which leads to the conclusion that the “white moderate” is disengaged and therefore prevails and supports the segregation.