Assassination of Martin Luther King

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    “I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.”
    —Edward VII (1841–1910)

    “Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.”
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    “Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.”
    —Martin Luther (1483–1546)

    “For and if thou canst answer my questions three,
    Thy life and thy living both saved shall be.”
    —Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 75–76)