For two years, he said, he had struggled to overcome the betrayal of his own silence on Vietnam. Many people asked him why he chose to speak out against the war. Wasn’t he damaging the civil rights campaign? He understood the question, he said, but he nevertheless felt dismayed that his friends and allies didn’t really know him, didn’t understand the depth of his dedication, the sincerity of his religious calling, didn’t truly understand the world in which they lived.
