The sanctioned anthology of King’s major works (1986) shifts nonviolence to the past tense, from “can transform” in the actual speech to “transformed.” It omits the first and last blocks of the delivered speech advocating nonviolence (“And so I plead with you…”). Also omitted in the preserved version are King’s entire discussion of Reconstruction and Jim Crow, his peroration on normalcy, and his recitals of “Lift Every Voice” and “The Battle of Jericho,” among other passages. Some of the errors and abridgments appeared first in excerpts compiled overnight by the New York Times.