Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s papers were donated by his wife Coretta Scott King to Stanford University’s King Papers Project. During the late 1980s, as the papers were being organized and worked on, the staff of the project made a discovery that dismayed them — King’s doctoral dissertation at Boston University, titled A Comparison of the Conception of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman, included large sections from a dissertation written by another student (Jack Boozer) three years earlier at Boston University.
As Clayborne Carson, director of the King Papers Project at Stanford University has written, “instances of textual appropriation can be seen in his earliest extant writings as well as his dissertation. The pattern is also noticeable in his speeches and sermons throughout his career.”
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/additional_resources/articles/palimp.htm
I think it would be a fitting tribute, don’t you?
What’s good for the goose…
eh …so he cheated a little. most great men cheated a little no?
Why not? Bush based his Iraq post-conflict ‘plans’ on an old Lonely Planet guidebook, so maybe we should commemorate his birthday by having a lobotomy.
Of course, you’re one step ahead of us in this regard.
lol 3 thumb downs. There are actually people who still think Iraq was justified and wise. But then these are the people who re-elected a chimp with all the oratory skills of a bowl of custard.
yes, emulate the role model
i wonder if members of his family are still suing each other for
a piece of the pie!
You will have people calling you ****** for sure. My brother lost his account for this type of question last year. Good luck.
so he copied some other guy speeches a little.come on man,the guy life was taken because he was peacefully fighting what he believed in,him plagiarizing a few speeches doesn’t make him less of a hero.
reading ur other questions on mlk its plain to see u don’t like him and ur entitled to ur opion and my opion of u is becoming less of a good one with each question u post about anything
Whoa…that is one sacred cow to have branded by those some would call ‘social desperados’.
Me? I was shown and subsequently disturbed by this study while in school.
When George Bush Jr was that age, he was getting convicted for DWI, busted for being a cokehead and knocking up an underage girl and complicit in getting her an illegal abortion as well as deserting his military post.
So a little plagarism isn’t that bad.
It’s amusing how the KKK websites get so excited about MLK plagarism, as if they were fighting for blacks to get civil rights.
We can also celebrate the tragic last night of this “great” man by going to a sleazy hotel and “****ing for God” and “not being a Negro” that night.
What do JFK and MLK have in common?
The only reason anyone cares about them 40 years later is the bullet holes in their rotting corpses.
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Hmmmm…Apparently from some of the answers I’ve seen it is acceptable and to some extent standard operating procedure to those followers of leftist ideologies to plagiarize (a polysyllabic word for theft) the fruits of another individuals labors…Kinda similar to what Hillary has in mind for this county’s industrious conservative majority.
lol at ghost.not like he was the president,he was a baptist minister and didn;t profit off the speeches he plagerised.but leave it to u cons to try to denegrate a man on something totally irrelevant.
It is a fitting tribute to try and do anything to tear down the legacy of a man that helped bring a nation together.
Hmmmmmmm, no wonder people think of conservatives as racists.
Also MLK didn’t profit from this or was he given a grade.
Well you know ,that you will get your **** kicked for this one, some people can’t handle the truth,But the truth is the truth, thanks, for standing up for what you believe is right,
guess, He had a little help, from his friends huh?.We should all remember,”All that glitters is not gold”when the truth is told.
Most people know he was a plagiarist and a womanizer. This are the flaws that King had and he did a good job of covering it up while he was alive. Though, the wiretapping of the Kennedy administration found out his secrets but they never did anything about it. King isn’t the saint everyone portrays him out to be, he was just a man.
Martin Luther King didn’t cheat only a little. He cheated a lot. He cheated when he wrote sermons. He cheated when he wrote books. He cheated when he posed as a moral, upright citizen. He cheated on his wife.
Michael (“Martin Luther”) King Jr. was a fraud, top to bottom. He got his doctorate by cheating; he got his religious degree through sinning copiously. His very first sermon, given in 1947 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, was stolen from a sermon by Protestant clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick. And nearly everything of significance that he said or wrote afterward was likewise stolen from better and brighter men — from men who never had a chance at the kind of honors that King got.
King’s essay, “The Place of Reason and Experience in Finding God,” pirated passages from Edgar S. Brightman’s earlier work, “The Finding of God.” Another of King’s essays, “Contemporary Continental Theology,” was mostly stolen from a book by Walter Marshall Horton. Michael King got his Ph.D. in theology on the basis of a doctoral dissertation entitled “A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Harry Nelson Wieman.” It contains more than fifty complete sentences stolen from the Ph.D. dissertation of Dr. Jack Boozer, “The Place of Reason in Paul Tillich’s Concept of God.”
Even in the famous “I have a dream” speech was tainted by intellectual theft. Some of its ideas and imagery are stolen from the 1952 address of Archibald Carey to the Republican National Convention.
“Reverend” King was a moral hypocrite because he committed adultery frequently with prostitutes, whom he paid with money he stole from Southern Christian Leadership Conference funds. King spent his last night alive in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, having *** with two *********** and beating up on a third woman. He was also a political hypocrite because he preached “racial harmony” but wrote the foreword for a book entitled “Negroes with Guns” by Robert Williams, which urged Blacks to buy guns and murder White people.
King was a communist agitator who hired and gave cover to Soviet agents during the Cold War. Both of his personal secretaries, Bayard Rustin and Jack O’Dell, were members of the Communist Party USA.
Such is the man whom most other Blacks look up to! Such was their greatest hero. The only sense in which King really excelled was in being Mr. Slick. He got a doctorate he didn’t deserve. He got a Congressional medal he didn’t deserve. He got a Nobel prize he didn’t deserve. He got a federal holiday he didn’t deserve. Streets have been named for him, but shouldn’t have been. And not one American in a thousand knows what kind of trash Martin Luther King Jr. really was.
Weather he copied or not, He still made a great impact on the world. No one is perfect.
In reality, Christopher Columbus was a drunk who died poor and without any friends in Spain. You don’t learn that in 3rd grade either.
Of course, why not? you celebrate other who done worst then plagiarizing in history. weather he copied or not, He’s still great to me.No one is perfect. you have student in university having other student write there paper all the time. going on being great doctor, lawyer etc. What is a role model?(YOU TELL ME) For me it was my mother and dad. They had there secrets. that came out when they pass on. some I doubt where true. Let fact it what has been written that hasn’t been written in the past 1,000 year?