• It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

    Martin Luther King, Jr.: It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
    1962 Speech at Cornell College, Mt Vernon, Iowa. Reported in the Wall Street Journal, 13 Nov.