How to Judge People by Their Own Principles

Dr. Martin Luther King was asked how he could be an admirer of Air Force General Daniel Chappie James, then the nation's highest ranking black officer. Dr. King replied: I judge people by their own principles, not by my own. In a similar way, General Robert E. Lee once spoke to the president of the Confederacy in the most glowing terms about a certain officer under his command. Another officer in attendance was astonished. "Do you not know that the man of whom you speak so highly is one of your bitterest enemies who misses no opportunity to malign you? Yes, reply General Lee,. He did not ask for his opinion of me," says author David