In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

“Unjust social orders do no fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the opp…”

“He held his ground like a sweet gum stump trying hard to live in a spirit of lo…”

“You read yourself full, you pray yourself hot, and then you turn yourself loose.”

“If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.”