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Christ and Gandhi, House and Home
by Matt B. on February 28, 2010
MLK on the Montgomery Bus Boycott:
“Nonviolent resistance had emerged as the technique of the movement, while love stood as the regulating ideal. In other words, Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.”
And on his brief moments during this period with his wife and young daughter:
“…as I drove up to the parsonage, more at peace than I had been in some time, I could hear Coretta’s high, true soprano through the living room window. In the back bedroom Yoki, now more than a month old, was wide awake and busy discovering her fingers. I picked her up and walked to the front room, bouncing her in time to Coretta’s song.”