"Wait" or "wait and see" was often told to African-Americans in the pre civil rights era to encourage them to avoid rebellion or protest and wait for society to change over time. Martin Luther King Jr. argued that waiting would accomplish nothing and that rebellion has its place so long as it is for a good cause and nonviolent, therefore waiting was a hinderance to the cause. He believed that if black Americans waited for white Americans to give them justice they would wait too long, if not forever.
