Shawn -
Interesting find... has anyone done some analysis via Google's caches
to see if this was the earliest recorded reference? Seems like there
might be some parallel to the OED process for origins of words, terms,
phrases? Do we know the frequency (i'm sure it is adaptive) of
Google's robots?
Unfortunately, I didn't have to read very far to find:
/I understand the only thing different between Osama and me ---is
that I have received Christ as my Savior. /
Which I find a very disturbing statement. This kind of exclusivity
seems to me to be the source of huge and continued divisiveness in the
world.
- Steve
Apparently the quote is an appended version of a passage that appeared
in MLK's book _Strength to Love_:
http://books.google.com/books?id=errxX4tzSMcC&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false
<http://books.google.com/books?id=errxX4tzSMcC&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false>
How it joined the first sentence is not clear. A facebook post has
been credited:
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/anatomy-of-a-fake-quotation/238257/
But I prefer to think that the amalgam originated here:
http://christianhomekeeper.org/blog/i-will-not-rejoice/
Best,
Shawn
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:01 AM, siddharth <sidh...@gmail.com
<mailto:sidh...@gmail.com>> wrote:
apparently this isn't even by MLK in the first place.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/out-of-osamas-death-a-fake-quotation-is-born/238220/
!!!
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Nicholas Thompson
<nickthomp...@earthlink.net <mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net>>
wrote:
"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will
not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper
darkness to a night already devoid of stars."
~ Martin Luther King
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
http://www.cusf.org <http://www.cusf.org/>
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