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...First Martyr. In seven weeks, Clark jailed no fewer than...
Selma's Negroes had a martyr, and King called for a march from Selma to the state capitol at Montgomery, 50 miles away. "I can't promise you that it won't get you beaten," cried King to his followers. "I can't promise you that it won't get your house bombed. I can't promise you won't get scarred up a bit. But we must stand up for what is right!" King planned to lead the march himself, but at the last minute was persuaded by aides to stay...
Last week Jimmie Jackson was eulogized by civil rights leaders as another martyr to the cause. At the first of two crowded funeral services, 1,000 Negroes jammed into a church in nearby Selma, site of Martin Luther King's voter-registration drive, and heard King's aide, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, declare: "Jimmie Jackson has taken his rightful place alongside such men as Crispus Attucks [a Negro shot to death by redcoats in the Boston Massacre], Abraham Lincoln, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, John Brown, Medgar Evers...
...arms in the agony of a Pietá. Other invocations of Christianity include the fiery end of the world, Christ's years in the wilderness, his marriage to his church, and his Crucifixion. But the mockery in all this is that Albee regards Christ crucified, or any martyr, as having chosen to be "one of the suicides." This internal contradiction prevails throughout the play...
...life. But it is the 20th century, the age of technological miracle, that has seen the triumph of the Enlightenment and the apparent banishment of God from the universe-even, thanks to Freud, from the human soul. Writing from his German prison cell in 1944. the anti-Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer defined it as "the world come of age." in which "man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis...