La morte prematura dello spirito dell'uomo secondo Martin Luther King

Quando ti rifiuti di lottare per ciò che è giusto

Quando ti rifiuti di lottare  per la verità

Quando ti rifiuti di lottare per la giustizia

TU sei già morto

Martin Luther King

You may be 38 years old as I happen to be, and one day some great opportunity 

stands before  you and calls upon you to stand up for some great principle, some 

great issue, some great  cause and you refuse to do it because you are afraid; you

refuse to do it because you want to live longer; 

You're afraid that you will lose your job, or you're afraid that you will be criticized or

that you will lose your popularity or you're afraid that somebody will stab you or

shoot  at you or bomb your house, and so you refuse to take the stand. 

Well you may go on and live until you are 90, but  you're just as dead at 38 as you 

would be at 90! 

And the cessation of breathing in your life is  but the belated announcement of an

earlier death of the spirit. 

You died when you refused to stand up for right, you died when you refused to 

stand up for truth, you died when you refused to stand up for justice.