Now, in order to answer the question, "Where do we go from here?" which is our theme, we must first honestly recognize where we are now....Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort from the inner city of poverty and despair shall be crushed by the battering rams of the forces of justice....Let us be dissatisfied until slums are cast into the junk heaps of history, and every family will live in a decent, sanitary home....Let us be dissatisfied until integration is not seen as a problem but as an opportunity to participate in the beauty of diversity....Let us be dissatisfied until that day when nobody will shout, "White Power!" when nobody will shout, "Black Power!" but everybody will talk about God's power and human power....And I must confess, my friends, that the road ahead will not always be smooth....[T]here will be those moments when the buoyancy of hope will be transformed into the fatigue of despair. But difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future....
Martin Luther King, 1967
If there is no struggle...
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.
Frederick Douglass, 1857
Campaigns We Support
Here are four campaigns that we believe deserve your attention; we hope to be adding many more in the months to come.
Racially segregated, high poverty neighborhoods are a continuing reality in many American cities. Congress has an opportunity to to reinvigorate two of the program’s original goals of housing choice and deconcentration of poverty.
In a city with more than 300,000 cooperative apartment units, fair housing laws will never be effective so long as the coop admissions process is ruled by secrecy.
