Solidarity with Palestine and Men on Death Row: Creative Maladjustment of a Nonconforming Minority

Mark Chmiel and Megan Heeney
A talk with JustFaith graduates of Saint Francis College Church
Saturday 19 January 2008
Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet Retreat Center
6400 Minnesota Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63111

from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Strength to Love: Sermons

“’Do not conform’ is difficult advice in a generation when crowd pressures have unconsciously conditioned our minds and feet to move to the rhythmic drumbeat of the status quo. Many voices and forces urge us to choose the path of least resistance, and bid us never to fight for an unpopular cause and never to be found in a pathetic minority of two or three.”

“We are called to be people of conviction, not conformity; of moral nobility, not social respectability. We are commanded to live differently and according to a higher loyalty.”

“The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.”