[Cultural Jihad]

But he told me often enough that if he couldn't live as a free man, he'd be a dead man. So I guess he wrote the inscription for his own tombstone.

Baloney. Because of his actions, a widow is now "free" of her husband and orphans are "free" of their father. In addition, he has enslaved you and others into a state of grief. That he taught disadvantaged youths to disrespect lawful authority means he did them no big favor.

[sourcery]

Betty boop:

He deeply resented the way state and local law enforcement hassled people of color and the economically disadvantaged, and said so. Most of the students in his Cincinnati classes were blacks. Don thought he was helping to empower the underprivileged in our society by teaching them the tools with which they could assert their constitutional rights, and many of these people are grateful to him.

Cultural Jihad's response:

That he taught disadvantaged youths to disrespect lawful authority means he did them no big favor.

Is it fair, is it intellectually honest, to interpret "empower the underprivileged in our society by teaching them the tools with which they could assert their constitutional rights" as "he taught disadvantaged youths to disrespect lawful authority "?

[betty boop]

You, sir, are an idiot.