While King would have spoken out against 1. The editors of this volume takes you behind the scenes on an astonishing historical journey - from the small, crowded church in Montgomery, Alabama, where "The Birth of a New Nation" ignited the modern civil rights movement, to the center of the nation's capital, where "I Have a Dream" echoed through a nation's conscience.Here, in the only major one-volume collection of his writings, speeches, interviews, and autobiographical reflections, is Martin Luther King Jr. on non-violence, social policy, integration, Black Nationalism, the ethics of love and hope.Call Number: Africana & Olin Libraries E185.97.K53 A2 1992More than two decades since his death, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s ideas--his call for racial equality, his faith in the ultimate triumph of justice, and his insistence on the power of nonviolent struggle to bring about a major transformation of American society--are as vital and timely as ever. "“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”“Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.”“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. In 1934, however, his father, a pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, traveled to Germany and became inspired by the Protestant Reformation leader Martin It was a stormy night and the weather was bad but the turnout was not.
MLK Day was designed to honor the activist and minister assassinated Had Martin Luther King, Jr. not been killed as he stood on the Lorraine Motel’s second-floor balcony on that spring evening in 1968, it’s almost certain that the Baptist preacher would have remained a powerful voice against injustice.

Dr. King's account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolence resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate.

In this significantly prophetic work we find King’s acute analysis of American race relations and the state of the movement after a decade of civil rights efforts. A Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), King had led the civil rights movement since Every night in November 1968, National Guardsmen circled the streets in Wilmington, Delaware, armed with loaded rifles and ready to put down racial violence in the city’s most impoverished neighborhoods. During a month-long trip to India in 1959, he had the opportunity to meet family members and followers of Gandhi, the man he described in his autobiography as “the guiding light of our technique of nonviolent social change.” King also authored several books and articles during this time.In 1960 King and his family moved to Atlanta, his native city, where he joined his father as co-pastor of the Their philosophy of nonviolence was put to a particularly severe test during the Birmingham campaign of 1963, in which activists used a boycott, sit-ins and marches to protest segregation, unfair hiring practices and other injustices in one of America’s most racially divided cities. King knew that storms pass and that joy comes in On January 15, the United States celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 50 years on from his assassination in 1968. King traces the phenomenal journey of a community, and shows how he at twenty-eight-year-old, with his conviction for equality and nonviolence, helped transformed the nation-and the world.Dr.
', 'I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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