I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the straight moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Gays’ great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the Super Straight or the Super Happy Fun American, but the straight moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another person’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Gay to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

— Martin Luther Queen Jr., probably