If HRC-type "incrementalism" had been used by the freedom movement...

[Ken Burch]

...the signs would have read

"Freedom At Some Point Down The Line, I Guess".

"Yeah, OK...We Can Wait For A While....No Big Hurry or Anything".

"I Will Eventually Be A Man After A Long Series Of Small, Nonthreatening Steps Toward Manhood At An Undetermined Date In The Relatively Near Future".


And the song would have gone

"We Shall Slowly Create A Policy Framework That Will Lead To Us Overcoming, So Long as the Overcoming Doesn't Create A Negative Investment Climate".

[Fawke Em]

1. LOL!

[Hoyt]

2. How long did it take, and one might argue it's still in process.

[Ken Burch]

5. A long time...but it was always driven by BIG demands.

You don't even get the small gains if you don't start with big demands.

[thereismore]

3. Hillry Clinton's fans, answer me this: Was Dr. King an incrementalist?

I want to see you say it.

[spyker29]

4. Are you suggesting equality was received instantaneously? Or at all?

[Ken Burch]

7. It took a long time. But the demands were always big.

They never went into it with the idea of settling for increments.

That is a big difference.

Even if you will take the increment, you have to have started by pushing for much, much more.

And by keeping the big dreams alive in people.

[JRLeft]

6. Hillary isn't even promising small steps she's promising no changes at all except more bloodshed

from wars.

[dsc]

8. Lincoln wanted to contain slavery not abolish it

and that worked out fairly well for getting rid of it.

[Ken Burch]

9. History and people working from below pushed him further than he'd planned. n/t.