"We should all be able to agree that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was "confrontational." He was also wise, measured, visionary, good-natured and generous of heart. Like most great figures in history, he was complicated. But he didn't ask for an end to Jim Crow repression, he demanded it; he didn't request equal justice, he required it. Confrontation, basically, was the whole point."

- Eugene Robinson, responding to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts recent complaint that the new MLK Jr. memorial statue was too "confrontational."

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