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title: "Timeline photos Great men often have feet of clay, and MLK was no…"
date: 2022-01-17
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships added a new photo.
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# Timeline photos Great men often have feet of clay, and MLK was no…

*January 17, 2022 · Facebook*

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Great men often have feet of clay, and MLK was no exception. That he suffered from a number personal failings, however, does not detract from the overall rightness of his cause, nor diminish his bravery in the pursuit of that cause. But we should always remember that even secular saints are capable of great evil, and not entrust them with too much power.\
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\"Newly-released documents reveal the full extent of the\
FBI's surveillance of the civil rights leader Dr Martin\
Luther King in the mid-1960s. They expose in graphic\
detail the FBI's intense focus on King's extensive extramarital sexual relationships with dozens of women, and also his\
presence in a Washington hotel room when a friend, a Baptist\
minister, allegedly raped one of his "parishioners", while King\
"looked on, laughed and offered advice". The FBI's tape recording of that criminal assault still exists today, resting under\
court seal in a National Archives vault.\
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The FBI documents also reveal how its Director, J. Edgar\
Hoover, authorised top Bureau officials to send Dr King a taperecording of his sexual activities along with an anonymous\
message encouraging him to take his own life.\
The complete transcripts and surviving recordings are not\
due to be released until 2027 but when they are made fully\
available a painful historical reckoning concerning King\'s personal contact seems inevitable.\"\
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