The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight. Sheesh

Good for her. I do the same. So should you.

I must confess that I believe firmly that our world is in dire need of a new organization – the International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment.”

So today, I invite my friends to join me in this IAACM. Resist! Silence is not the answer.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, and to the self-defeating effects of physical violence… It is no longer a choice between non-violence and violence: it is now a choice between non-violence and non-existence…

I never intend to adjust myself to segregation and discrimination… to religious bigotry…to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few, and leave millions of people perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of prosperity.

But I must say to you this evening, my friends, there are some things in our nation and in our world to which I'm proud to be maladjusted. And I call upon you to be maladjusted and all people of good will to be maladjusted to these things until the good society is realized

“...I talk a great deal about the need for a kind of divine discontent. Modern psychology has a word that has become common—…maladjusted… It is a ringing cry of modern child psychology; and certainly we all want to live the well adjusted and avoid neurotic and schizophrenic personalities.

On the occasion of MLK Day/ Inauguration Day coinciding, I think it only appropriate to quote from a speech MLK gave in 1966. After hearing it yesterday, in solidarity I am declaring myself ‘maladjusted.’ MLK said: