town in three days, we're going to
blow your brains out and blow up your house.-- As Martin Luther King
recalled it later:
I got to the point that I couldn't take it any longer. I was weak.
Something said to me, you can't call on Daddy now, he's up in Atlanta a
hundred and seventy-five miles away. You can't even call on Mama now.
You've got to call on the something in that person that your Daddy used
to tell you about, that power that can make a way out of no way.
And I discovered, then, that religion had become something real to me
and I had to know God for myself. And I bowed down over that cup of
coffee. I will never forget it. I prayed a prayer and I prayed out loud
that night. I said, --Lord, I'm down here trying to do what's right. I
think I'm right. I think the cause that we represent is right. But,
Lord, I must confess that I'm weak now. I'm faltering. I'm losing my
courage. And I can't let the people see me like this, because if they
see me weak and losing my courage, they will begin to get we