David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

But that is not the point. Trocmé was
disagreeable in the same magnificent
sense as Jay Freireich and Wyatt Walker
and Fred Shuttlesworth. And the beauty
of the disagreeable is that they do not
make calculations like the rest of us.
Walker and Shuttlesworth had nothing to
lose. If your house has been bombed and
the Klan has surrounded your car and
pummeled you with their fists, how can
things get any worse? Jay Freireich was
told to stop what he was doing and
warned that he was risking his career.
He was heckled and abandoned by his
peers. He held dying children in his
arms and jabbed a thick needle into their
shinbones. But he had been through