He brought over some of Martin’s oldest friends, including Benjamin Mays, the president of Morehouse, to help talk him out of returning. But Martin Luther King, Jr., was firm now. Not to return, to desert his friends at this point, would be the height of cowardice, he told them. “I have begun the struggle,” he said, “and I can’t turn back. I have reached the point of no return.” At that point his father broke down and began to sob. Benjamin Mays told him he was doing the right thing, and he returned to Montgomery. On
