connor and his policemen have been rather nonviolent in public, as was chief pritchett in albany, georgia, but they have used the moral means of nonviolence to maintain the immoral end of racial injustice. as t. s. eliot has said, the last temptation is the greatest treason. to do the right deed for the wrong reason. i wish you had commended the negro sit inners and demonstrators of birmingham for their sublime courage, their willingness to suffer, and their amazing discipline in the midst of great provocation. one day the south will recognize its real heroes. they will be the james merediths, with the noble sense of purpose that enables them to face jeering and hostile mobs and with agonizing loneliness that characterizes the life of the pioneer. they will be old, oppressed, battered negro women, symbolized in a 72-year-old woman in montgomery, alabama who rows up with a sense of dig if i and with her people dignity and with her people decided not to ride segregated buses and who responded with ungram mat cal profundity to one who inquired about her weariness. my feets is tired but my so