“’Martin knew that death could never destroy who he really was,’ Young said to me that day in the Riverside Church. ‘Death can never destroy who you really are. Suffering can never destroy who you really are.’ Martin Luther King, Jr. knew that we are more than we think we are. He knew truth is more than we think it is at any given moment.
After than encounter, I was so deeply moved that I read the sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. Here is one snippet from a sermon in 1968: ‘You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid.’”
Tracy Cochran on the wisdom of Martin Luther King.
Pictured: Thich Nhat Hanh & Martin Luther King, June 1966
