Reply #74: Not exactly a prophecy there.

[imdjh]

We need legislation and federal action to control behavior. It may be true that the law can't make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important also.

-MLK

Lynching was already a crime when he said that. The confusion when it comes to lynching is that the term is used to refer to the execution of the innocent, to the execution of the guilty, and the execution of those who haven't been tried. The type of lynching King referred to was illegal in his own time. Given that the act was already against the law, then clearly the law didn't prevent it from taking place. Makes a nice quote though.