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Certainly all of us want to live a well-adjusted life in order to avoid the neurotic personality. But I say to you, there are certain things within our social order to which I am proud to be maladjusted and to which I call upon all men of good will to be maladjusted. (...)
So let us be maladjusted, as maladjusted as the prophet Amos, who in the midst of the injustices of his day could cry out in words that echo across the centuries, “Let justice rundown like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Amos 5 : 24 (...)
Let us be maladjusted as Jesus of Nazareth, who could look into the eyes of the men and women of his generation and cry out, “Love your enemies. Bless them that curse you. Pray for them that despitefully use you.” Mat. 5 : 44
→ Martin Luther King (1929-1968), pasteur baptiste américain et militant pour les droits civiques
Source : Fair and unbalanced (Proud to be maladjusted, excerpts, Lincoln University, June 6th 1961)