MLK: "I'm not interested in pressing charges."

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"I'm interested in changing the kind of system that produces such men."

In this photograph, Coretta is upset with her husband, who had been attacked the night before by a disturbed white racist but had not defended himself. Though the police urged King to press charges, he refused. "The system we live under creates people such as this youth," he said. "I'm not interested in pressing charges. I'm interested in changing the kind of system that produces such men.

these photos are from a TIME photo essay- Martin Luther King Jr. at Home (these pics aren't currently available on the TIME webpage)

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[HiPointDem]

2. what's interesting to me about those photos is that mlk lives in what appears to be an ordinary

middle class home of the period.

[Cha]

3. Wow.. just Wow. It's so

hard for me to comprehend how people can be so small to attack others for the color of their skin.

MLK was such a brave, intelligent soul in wanting to get to the very core that generates such people.

I appreciate this, bigtree.. thank you.

[uponit7771]

4. very powerful, the human side of his fight shows through on their faces

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