Stride toward freedom; the Montgomery story

But But more generally...

Oh, I was quoting MLK's Stride Toward Freedom memoir.

Okay, great.

Okay, wonderful.

... and the South in particular.

And I've also, uh, said that even after making these, uh, these general statements, as I said in my book, Stride Toward Freedom, in the final analysis, uh, the, the, the Negro's basic aim is to be the white man's brother and not his brother-in-law, and I think that has been revealed by the very events of, of contemporary history.

There, uh, there is nothing more specific by way of, uh, an overriding statistic, for example.

Well, there have been very few intermarriages.

This is my feeling, that this bill cannot get through without the total weight of the president and his prestige behind it on almost a day-to-day basis, making it clear that he wants this and that the nation must have it and that it needs it, and he can't do it in a, in another country.

I wonder if you'd comment, Dr.

King, on a quotation of James Baldwin from his most recent book, The Fire Next Time.

"White people will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this, which will not be tomorrow and may very well never be, the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed." He seems to be suggesting that the Negro problem in this country is a whipping boy for the frictions of whites among themselves.

So if he's going to give up like his standard means ends compatibility or testing, there is this one particular end which is to get India freedom, which ranks above everything else.

And I got this insight when I read Rajmohan Gandhi's The Good Boatman, which is his shorter biography of Mohandas Gandhi.

So, you know, Raj Mohan Gandhi has also written like the larger or longer biographies.

This is a very specific point that he makes.

But out of what he had practiced, you could build a theory.

Right.

So in his autobiography, Martin Luther King actually formulated six core tenets of nonviolence.

I'll read them out because it's superb.