But he knew he needed to get rid of his anger. During the famous bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, King was blamed by the authorities for the lack of a settlement. He knew it wasn’t fair. And he wrote this in his autobiography: That Monday I went home with a heavy heart. I was weighed down by a terrible sense of guilt, remembering that on two or three occasions I had allowed myself to become angry and indignant. I had spoken hastily and resentfully. Yet I knew that this was no way to solve a problem. “You must not harbor anger,” I admonished myself. “You must be willing to suffer
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