If the spirit was truly within them, Bevel thought, they would not be worrying so much about what Dr. King was doing, they would be thinking only of what was the right thing for them to do. The more certain a person was of the nonviolent spirit, Bevel believed, the less likely he was to politic with others. No one, he thought, had a right to push anyone else toward so dangerous a fate, particularly Martin Luther King, who lived every day with the threat of assassination hanging over him.
