I Think Personally, I've Always Felt That

In Your Short Stay In Atlanta, I'm Sure You Saw That There Was Great Competition Between Martin's [luther King] Father And John Wesley Dobbs In Terms Of Family Status. You Know, The Bragging About Whose Child Got A Master's Degree First And Whose Child, Maybe, Was The First Ph.d. Out Of A Background Like That, The Business Of Becoming A Chairman Of An Important Movement Or A Movement That Symbolizes A Certain Amount Of Prestige Is Something You Don't Resist Easily.

Oppressed People, Whatever Their Level Of Formal Education, Have The Ability To Understand And Interpret The World Around Them, To See The World For What It Is, And Move To Transform It.

Martin [luther King] Wasn't, Basically, The Kind Of Person - Certainly At The Stage That I Knew Him Closest - Wasn't The Kind Of Person You Could Engage In Dialogue With, Certainly, If The Dialogue Questioned The Almost Exclusive Rightness Of His Position.

I Went To What Is Known As, And Was At That Time, Too, Shaw University In Raleigh, North Carolina. In Fact, Because Of The Lack Of Public School Facilities, I Began There. I Began Boarding School At The High School Level; In Fact, A Year Below The High School Level.

The Anniversary Of The Montgomery Boycott Was Being Celebrated, And The Handbill That Was Out, And All Whatever Literature That Was Circulated, Didn't Say Practically Anything About Movement Or What The Movement Stood For, What It Had Done, Or Anything, But Was Simply Adulation Of The Leader, You Know, [martin Luther] King.