Tape of MLK Interview Turns Up in an Attic
“ If one is truly nonviolent, that person has a loving spirit; he refuses to inflict injury upon the opponent because he, he loves the opponent,” the Rev Martin Luther King Jr says in a newly discovered tape of an interview made nearly three years before his "I Have a Dream" speech .
“ … If one is truly nonviolent, that person has a loving spirit; he refuses to inflict injury upon the opponent because he, he loves the opponent,” the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. says in a newly discovered tape of an interview made nearly three years before his “I Have a Dream” speech. The tape was found in the attic of a home in Tennessee.
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