Wait and be Patient

As I understand it, some of king’s white colleagues ask him to “wait and be patient” because they think that when a new administration is placed, things will change. However, it became clear for the Afro-American community that such train of thought was merely hope that would eventually be destroyed since all the elected people are segregationists and there is never a sign of change no matter how many elections there are. His response to this “wait and be patient” request is that never has the oppressing people gave voluntarily liberty to the oppressed. According to him, history shows that…