Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Inaccurate MLK quote goes viral

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/anatomy-of-a-fake-quotation/238257/
Everything except the first sentence is found in King's book, Strength to Love, and seems to have been said originally in a 1957 sermon he gave on loving your enemies. Unlike the first quotation, it does sound like King, and it was easy to assume that the whole thing came from him.
I wonder if this tops of the charts for total number of false beliefs acquired in a short period.

(h/t: Eric Reitan)

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