"But if we manage to forget that, sometimes, doing things that terrify people is the only recourse to injustice, there is no point in having a Martin Luther King Day at all."
From Rick Pearlstein's rambling but thought-provoking essay on King at The New Republic's web site.
The essay is titled "Conservatives still don't get Martin Luther King," a title I'd argue is only partially right. Conservatives don't "get" him. Neither does anyone else, really.
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