What Will We Be Extremists For?

On this date in 1963 Martin Luther King
wrote a letter from his prison cell
in Birmingham, Alabama.

He was responding to criticism aimed at him
from unnamed white church leaders who said
his peaceable campaign for colour blind parity
was 'untimely and unwise'.

The letter was called
'Letter From a Birmingham Jail',
and it is proof of how scripture,
as it says it is, was meant to be used
to provide constructive rebukes
when a people fall into error.

It is also a short history lecture. 

It is forty paragraphs long,
here is a link to the whole text,
here is a link to Dr King reading it out.
The gist of it is contained in one phrase.

'The question is not whether we will be extremists,
but what kind of extremists we will be.
Will we be extremists for hate or love?'