King’s Widow Reiterates Plea for Nonviolence
From Times Wire Reports
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow called for an end to acrimony in politics as Americans paused to remember the slain civil rights leader.
In Atlanta, Coretta Scott King talked last year about avoiding war in Iraq, and her plea for nonviolence returned this year. “Peaceful ends can only be reached through peaceful means,” she said in her annual King Day address.
“The noblest goal is not conquest of enemies but reconciliation with adversaries,” she said.
King would have turned 75 on Thursday.
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