"King is not a legend because he believed in diversity trainings and civic ceremonies, or because he had a nice dream. He is remembered because he took serious risks and, as the Quakers say, spoke truth to power." . . . we don't see arrests for fighting segregated housing in Chicago, or the generations of beatings and busts before he won the Nobel Peace Prize. We don't hear about the mainstream American contempt at the time for King, even after that Peace Prize, nor his reputation among conservatives as a Commie dupe.
"We don't see retrospectives on his linkage of civil rights with Third World liberation.
" . . . If the King of 1955 or 1965 were alive today, he would be accused of treason for his pacifism."
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