Earnestly, almost gingerly, he wound to the subject of love. “Now we say in this nonviolent movement that you’ve got to love this white man,” he told them. Above a cry of “Yes!” he said, “And God knows, he needs our love…. And let me say to you that I’m not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love.” Begging their indulgence, he recited again the distinctions among the three Greek words for “love.” This time he added a small new twist by stating that there was something mundane, even debased, about eros and filia. “Romantic love is inevitably a little selfish,” he declared. “You move
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