Then King spoke directly to the “bereaved families,” as he had done as a pastor at Dexter in Montgomery and Ebenezer in Atlanta and would also have to do again and again for freedom fighters murdered in the civil rights movement. As he searched for words of faith that would console them in their great loss, King said, I hope you find consolation from Christianity’s affirmation that death is not the end. Death is not a period that ends the great sentence of life, but a comma that punctuates it to more lofty significance. Death is not a blind alley that leads the human race into a state of
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