We do our best in life................we sometimes fall short...........but we can redeme ourselves...........as Eddie Murhpy said..........those who critize others as if they never sin............are too scared to cough up what is in their closet, which might be a skeleton.....................i, myself, have sinned tons.......i do my best and leave the rest to God..................with that being said.........i try to correct my mistakes............no one is perfect..........................

Abernathy said it was also important to de-sanctify the person he knew as a man. It’s important, he said, to know that King had frailties and faults like any other human being. He made mistakes, like all great leaders have, in and out of the Bible.

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King and Abernathy give a press conference in Birmingham, Alabama, February 1963. Abernathy’s reason for including the passage was to paint King as someone who made mistakes, as all great leaders do.Photo: Getty Images

Martin Luther King is no lesser man for what Abernathy revealed. And history is better served by his truthfulness.

Lost in all the controversy was the book’s true mission: to provide a blueprint for a successful social protest campaign.