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Dr. Clarence B. Jones

11 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 31, 2025 by Dr. Clarence B. Jones · across every show →

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Jan 31, 2025 positive
Insight
Jones: MLK's 'content of character' principle remains the primary template
“I want my four children to be judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin. That, to me, is still, that's the template That still remains a template.”
Dr. Clarence B. Jones Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 1:03:15 Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter
Jan 31, 2025
Opinion
Jones: MLK was brilliant, vulnerable, and sometimes personally irresponsible
“Martin King was, ah, the most brilliant, vulnerable, Sometimes personally irresponsible, brilliant person I'd ever met, you know.”
Dr. Clarence B. Jones Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 30:30 Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter
Jan 31, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jones committed to MLK's movement immediately after hearing his sermon
“I pulled him to me very closely, and I leaned over to him, and I said, Dr. King, when do you want me to go to Montgomery, Alabama? And that's what I call the making of a disciple.”
Dr. Clarence B. Jones Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 21:27 Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter
Jan 31, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jones: I told MLK early on I was not committed to nonviolence
“I let Dr. King know very armed in our relationship I was not nonviolent. No, no, no, no. No, I let him know I'm not nonviolent. I was not committed to nonviolence.”
Dr. Clarence B. Jones Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 31:16 Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter
Jan 31, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jones: Civil rights leaders ignored wealth because they expected to die young
“I never, the concept of money and wealth didn't mean anything. And one of the reasons it didn't mean anything, because I never contemplated that I would, I never believed I would live beyond the age of 50. None of us ever believed me. I never believed that Mar…”
Dr. Clarence B. Jones Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 34:34 Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter
Jan 31, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Jones: I was the only person allowed to visit MLK in Birmingham Jail
“Now, I was the only person who could go in to see Martin when he was in jail in Birmingham.”
Dr. Clarence B. Jones Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 40:40 Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter
Jan 31, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jones: RFK's reaction to MLK's death transformed my opinion of him
“Now, I, Had been one of the fiercest critics of Robert Kennedy up until that day. And when somebody told me and described to me that he sobbed and put his sob, I said, Clarence, there's something about Robert Kennedy you don't know, and you gotta find out more…”
Dr. Clarence B. Jones Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 50:15 Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter
Jan 31, 2025
Assertion Supported
Dr. Clarence Jones wrote the first seven paragraphs of 'I Have a Dream'
“He is responsible for the first seven paragraphs of the famous I have a dream speech.”
Megan Holston Alexander Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 1:39 Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter
Jan 31, 2025
Assertion Supported
Dr. Clarence Jones facilitated the notes behind 'Letter from Birmingham Jail'
“He helped exchange notes that would later become the basis of letter from Birmingham jail.”
Megan Holston Alexander Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 1:48 Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter
Jan 31, 2025
Assertion Supported
Jones informed MLK of W.E.B. Du Bois's death at the March
“And what I wrote on the program was that we were told that Dr. W. E. Du Bois had died that night before in Ghana at the age of 90 years of age. And so, I wrote to Martin on the program. Just got word from the Dr. Du Bois died in Ghana. Maybe the people at the …”
Dr. Clarence B. Jones Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 27:23 Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter
Jan 31, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jones initially intended to refuse working with Martin Luther King Jr.
“Oh, no, I wasn't going to do it. No, I wasn't going to do it.”
Dr. Clarence B. Jones Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 14:22 Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter
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