April 16, 1963

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

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We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was „legal“ and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was „illegal.“ It was „illegal“ to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. But I am sure that if I had lived in Germany during that time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers even though it was illegal.

—Martin Luther King, Jr., „Letter from a Birmingham Jail„