"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
— Lynching

January 1, 1970

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Martin Luther King, Jr. quoted in: Andrew Sabl Ruling Passions: Political Offices and Democratic Ethics, Princeton University Press, 9 February 2009, p. 227.