It is historically and biologically true that there can be no birth and growth without birth and growing pains. Whenever there is the emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old. So the tensions which we witness in the world today are indicative of the fact that a new world order is being born and an old order is passing away.

Quotation #4633

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Address at First Annual Institute on Nonviolence and Social Change, Montgomery, Ala., 3 Dec. 1956