He wasn't only trying ....
Submitted by A,I. Watcher on February 25 2002 00:49:28
In reply to I never said MLK was a saint submitted by Dakota on February 24 2002 23:38:32
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... he succeeded to a large extent. He found a violent, militant movement that was bent on using terror and extremism to effect a just cause and he turned it on its head. He almost single handedly changed the collective mind of a generation. He used love and and firm, unbending tolerance to effect the kind of change that might never otherwise have been achieved. He took a powder keg and changed it into a controlled, non-lethal burn. If he or someone like him had not been on the national stage at that critical moment in U.S. history, I think we would probably have been doomed to horrible race riots and a Palestinian-like uprising. |
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