What does it mean?
Attacks from enemies are expected. What really hurts is when friends stay quiet instead of standing up for us.
Who said it?
Martin Luther King Jr.: American civil rights leader (1929–1968).
These exact words are widely credited to Martin Luther King Jr., but they don’t appear in their known work. They may be a later paraphrase or a misattribution.
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