Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impossible to know what King-and another assassinated black leader, Malcolm X, the apostle of the unchurched-might have done to change the struggle, had they lived. According to King's assistant, Wyatt Tee Walker: "Their deaths set back our struggle by 25 years.' Even toward the end of King's life, however, he may have suspected that he was losing his constituency among blacks because of the change in Negro psychology. The thrust of the nonviolent crusade had been integration of schools and public facilities, voting rights and new civil rights laws. Yet the brutal circumstances...
...have all learned, we all know, that in dictatorial regimes the beginning may seem easy. Yet tragedy waits at the end, inescapably. It is this tragic ending that consciously or unconsciously torments us, as in the ancient choruses of Aeschylus...
Long lost, I know...
Margin for Error. Such cases would raise perplexing professional problems under the most clinical of circumstances. Is an accused criminal presently sick? Psychologists know that batteries of tests, such as the Rorschach and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory used on Sirhan, show only the probability that a man has certain personality traits; they have a built-in margin of error when applied to one individual. Even though experts may agree on the diagnosis of a man's present state, they often have difficulties when pressed to project it back to his condition at the time of the crime. The link...
...really use the label 'unbeliever' for people whose search for the transcendent is somehow more serious and many times more ardent? They may think of themselves as Marxists or scientific humanists or behaviorists, but 'nonbelievers' is not the name by which they know themselves in their own hearts...