In My Soul is Rested, Raines writes, from the words of Franklin McCain, “… I felt as though the manhood of a number of other black persons had been restored and had gotten some respect from just that one day. The movement started out as a movement of nonviolence and a Christian movement… It was a movement that was seeking justice more than anything else and not a movement to start a war… We knew that probably the most powerful and potent weapon that people have literally no defense for love, kindness. That is, whip the enemy with something he doesn’t understand…” The quote portrays sentiments about the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. In other words, the words also express the events, a wave of student sit-ins, helped initiate a national
