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He flirted with Commumists in the US and was reported to have been debauched in certain private company, but he had his finger on the pulse of our need to maintain the meaning of words to preserve the force of law and maintain justice."We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal.' It was 'illegal' to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., excerpt from "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" | April 16, 1963