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“We’ve got some difficult days ahead,” civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis’s Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. “But it really doesn’t matter to me now because I’ve been to the mountaintop. . . . And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.”These prohetic words, uttered the day before his assassination, challenged those he le… More >>
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are an INCREDIBLE amount of typographical errors in this text; however the message that it carries transcends these.
Rating: 4 / 5
I’ve studied the works of Dr. King since I was 7 years old, and now my 7 year old is studying him with great interest. I figured this book (a gift) would be a good summation of his career instead of the other half dozen individual books I have in my library. Well, as with his other work, there are many, many typographical errors. I feel that a man of his education would be offended to see his works corroded by half-assed spell checking.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a wonderful resource. I am particularly thrilled that it contains one of his best speeches (personally speaking): The Drum Major Instinct. What a thorough work this is… mega thanks to the author for compiling this work.
Rating: 5 / 5
A suggested read for anyone (emphasis). Through the essays, abridged novels, and interviews, one can gather a personal and philosophical history of MLK, a summary of the civil rights movement, and a greater understanding of life and religion (which are inextricably attached really). I particularly appreciated the notion that civil rights was really about human rights on a global scale. He oft points out that poor whites, Latinos, and Asians, faced the same issues in the U. S. and across the globe.
A central theme is the principles of nonviolent resistance, which are essentially (if properly understood) unbiased and unwavering compassion and respect for (all) human life. I believe this is the single greatest area of failure in our current society. The book has entrenched that position further, with a deepened understanding of what it means, where the problems have exhibited themselves, and how we might improve upon the situation.
I must say as a native Alabamian and habitant of Birmingham for almost 10 years, the book has particular relevance to me. However, the history chronicled within is the history of man and is therefore applicable to everyone.
Rating: 5 / 5
Martin Luther King Jr. the great American Civil Rights leader was a voice not only for black people in the United States, but for Mankind as a whole. He dreamed but he did not dream for black people alone but for every single American, and every single human being. Essentially his message was one of hope.
He was perhaps the most powerful speaker the United States had in the twentieth century. His ‘I have a dream’ speech on the Mall in Washington at the height of the Civil Rights movements was a call for and affirmation of human dignity and freedom.
He spoke in the language and rhythms of the Bible.
In his Nobel Prize Speech he articulated his faith in nonviolence as a means for human liberation. While it might be possible to question the validity of the non- violent option when confronting the most ruthless forms of totalitarian Evil it nonetheless is tribute to the spirit of King’s deep Christian faith that he so passionately preached the ‘non- violent doctrine’.
This book is a testimony to one of the truly great Americans of the twentieth – century. A man who by his example , by his deeds, ( And his words too are great deeds) gave hope and freedom to so many.
This work could not be recommended more highly.
Rating: 5 / 5