Daniel Coutz

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itself. “The problem with us is that we are too afraid of dying,” he said, “and too afraid of going places that will cause us to die.” Instead of worrying about the Birmingham jail, he advised the fearful, “when you go home tonight you better stand up in the corner and not go to bed, because more folk have died in the bed than any place I know.”
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
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