Posted on 09/05/2017 8:42:11 PM PDT by propdog57
I wouldn’t trust that dude with a cheese pizza.
You should familiarize with the subject.
It wasn’t a “few words.”
Martin Luther King’s plagiarism was on a grand scale.
Yes, yes....
my post were the words of the defense attorney
Your post were the words of the prosecutor
Lol. But honestly, that should have been the title of the book: It was My Turn. Anything else is simply disingenuous.
Hilarious!
The University King graduated from conducted an investigation and concluded he had committed blatant plagiarism.
BASED ON the many passages from others that he lifted word for word and did not attribute.
Not based on clueless internet posts by someone who is too lazy to read easily available info.
Boston U. Panel Finds Plagiarism by Dr. King
October 11, 1991
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/11/us/boston-u-panel-finds-plagiarism-by-dr-king.html
BOSTON, Oct. 10— A committee of scholars appointed by Boston University concluded today that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized passages in his dissertation for a doctoral degree at the university 36 years ago.
“There is no question,” the committee said in a report to the university’s provost, “but that Dr. King plagiarized in the dissertation by appropriating material from sources not explicitly credited in notes, or mistakenly credited, or credited generally and at some distance in the text from a close paraphrase or verbatim quotation.” Despite its finding, the committee said that “no thought should be given to the revocation of Dr. King’s doctoral degree,” an action that the panel said would serve no purpose.
But the committee did recommend that a letter stating its finding be placed with the official copy of Dr. King’s dissertation in the university’s library.
The four-member committee was appointed by the university a year ago to determine whether plagiarism charges against Dr. King that had recently surfaced were in fact true. Today the university’s provost, Jon Westling, accepted the committee’s recommendations and said its members had “conducted the investigation with scholarly thoroughness, scrupulous attention to detail and a determination not to be influenced by non-scholarly consideration.”
The dissertation at issue is “A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman.” Dr. King wrote it in 1955 as part of his requirements for a doctor of philosophy degree, which he subsequently received from the university’s Division of Religious and Theological Studies.
One member of the investigating committee, John Cartwright, the university’s Martin Luther King Professor of Social Ethics, said the panel had refrained from speculating about the reasons why Dr. King had not properly attributed material, which came from a variety of other interpreters of the works of Tillich and Wieman.
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