DARUSHIMO

I hope you’re all embarrassed for sending around that fake quote. And now I hope that for another reason:

An apparently fake Martin Luther King Jr. quotation is making the internet rounds today in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing, probably because the passage seems tailor-made for such an event. The quotation—”I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy”—has been popping up in Twitter feeds around the world, and yet it’s nowhere to be found in any of the extensive online records of King’s famous historical speeches and writings. […] It turns out that the origin of the fake MLK quote was a woman named  Jessica Dovey, whose harmless Facebook update had people confused about where her words ended and King’s began.