Carolina Quotes
I make bold to assert that it took more courage for King to practice nonviolence than it took his assassin to fire the fatal shot.
Benjamin Mays Carolinian
Source
Eulogy for Martin Luther King Jr., Morehouse College, Atlanta, April 9, 1968; text via Bates College
- form
- speech
- work
- Eulogy for Martin Luther King Jr.
- year
- 1968
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“I make bold to assert that it took more courage for King to …” Benjamin Mays. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-464BEBFDCE. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/464bebfdce
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