What King understood—and what we often miss—is that justice isn't a collection of separate victories but an interconnected whole. When a community accepts injustice as someone else's problem, it weakens the moral architecture that protects *everyone*; the precedent set in one courtroom or one neighborhood becomes the permission slip for the next indignity elsewhere. His insight cuts against our comfortable habit of moral compartmentalization, the way we might outrage over distant wrongs while ignoring the court system's casual brutality in our own city. When a nurse stays silent about wage theft at one hospital, she's inadvertently making it easier for it to happen at another—the problem isn't just that injustice spreads, but that our silence becomes part of the spreading.