Since When...

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." Martin Luther King, Jr.

Since when did the response to unrighteousness become "so what deal with it", "so what accept it". Since when did "it's happening to everybody" and "everybody's doing it" become okay to do wrong or allow wrong to be done. Since when did silence and inaction become the so called resolution. When did we become so defeated, helplessly accepting victimization, instead of fighting for our rights. When did the response from others become "that's none of my business". 

Since when did we get so wrapped up in self that we have no time for others. Why if it doesn't effect us personally do we ignore it.  Nothing matters until it happens to you but then again in some cases it doesn't matter then either. Since when did degradation become an honor as long as it brings about fame or fortune. What happened to our morals. What happened to standing for something. Why do we fall for anything. What happened to values. When did we stop standing for righteousness and start replacing it with nonchalance. Since when did we become so desensitized. Why do we have an attitude of indifference. Why do we have no concern. Since when did we stop caring. 

Why is it that if you do care you're made to feel like you are the one in the wrong. You become the outcast. They tell you "you're doing too much", "it's not that serious". Why are you looked at as being uptight. Why are you told, out of fear, not to take risk to defend the truth. Since when did standing for what's right become wrong. Since when did doing nothing ever change anything.

Since when...

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Quotes To Think About...

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."  Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists." Martin Luther King, Jr.