“Martin Luther King Jr. once said, ‘I think we’ve got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard.’ By contrast, in a sermon entitled ‘Rioting or Righteousness,’ Billy Graham stated, ‘There is no doubt that the rioting, looting, and crime in America have reached a point of anarchy.’... The differing responses of King and Graham to these riots further shows how Christian activists interpreted the civil rights movement differently from Christian moderates.”
