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 the anger of the opponent, and yet not return
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